Count highly-cited papers instead of papers with h citations: use normalized citation counts and compare “like with like”!
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Prediction of highly cited papers
In an article in the pages of this journal five years ago, we described a method for predicting which scientific papers will be highly cited in the future, even if they are currently not highly cited. Applying the method to real citation data we made predictions about papers we believed would end up being well cited. Here we revisit those predictions, five years on, to see how well we did. Amon...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientometrics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0138-9130,1588-2861
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2682-1