Environmental earth sciences—most cited papers: 2015–2016

Most cited papers in Toxicon.

Citation of a published work is one of the parameters considered in the analysis of relevance and importance of scientific contributions. In 2002, for the first time the Impact Factor of Toxicon has risen above 2.0, placing it at the 17th position among 76 journals in the 'toxicology' field. The aim of this article was to identify the most cited articles in Toxicon, that have contributed to the...

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...

Are higher quality papers cited more often?

The top 100 cited neurorehabilitation papers.

BACKGROUND Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, assessment approaches and treatment methods. There have been previous citation analyses of rehabilitation and of its subfields. However, there has never been a comprehensive citation analysis in neurorehabilitation. OBJECTIVE The present study reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited neurorehabilitati...

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...