Are academics who publish more also more cited? Individual determinants of publication and citation records

Are Journal Articles Accessed More Times Also Cited More?

CrossRef reports what is called resolutions every month. This document reports statistics complied monthly on the papers of each journal accessed through the digital object identifier (DOI) proxy server (http://dx.doi.org/). The Archives of Plastic Surgery (APS) also receives the report about which papers are accessed frequently through the DOI system. However, the report only includes papers t...

Are astronomical papers with more authors cited more?

Following my previous study of paper length vs. number of citations in astronomy (Stanek 2008), some colleagues expressed an interest in knowing if any correlation exists between citations and the number of authors on an astronomical paper. At least naively, one would expect papers with more authors to be cited more. I test this expectation with the same sample of papers as analyzed in Stanek (...

Are higher quality papers cited more often?

Are top-cited papers more interdisciplinary?

Over the last decade, the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact has been the focus of many bibliometric papers, with diverging results. This paper aims at contributing to this body of research, by analyzing the level of interdisciplinarity, compiled with the Simpson Index, of the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks. Results...

More records of xylariaceous fungi from North of Iran

This study was carried out to contribute to the knowledge of biodiversity of xylariaceous fungi from North of Iran. Plant materials with fruiting bodies of xylariaceous fungi were collected and examined. Eight species viz. Annulohypoxylon nitens, Biscogniauxia anceps, B. capnodes var. rumpens, B. mediterranea, B. plana, Hypoxylon flavoargillaceum, Jumillera cinerea, and Nemania illita were iden...