Introduction The growing focus in research policy worldwide on top scientists makes it increasingly important to define adequate supporting measures to help identify excellent scientists. Highly cited publications have since long been associated to research excellence. At the same time, the analysis of the high-end of citation distributions still is a challenging topic in evaluative bibliometri...

INTRODUCTION Acute appendicitis is one of the most commonly encountered emergency surgical conditions. An understanding of the most highly cited research works in this field is key to good evidence based clinical practice. AIMS To perform a bibliometric analysis on the 100 most frequently cited articles in the field of acute appendicitis. METHODS The database of the Institute for Scientific...

Osteoporosis is a systemic disease of the bone that affects millions of people and causes burden for both the affected individual and health systems and societies worldwide. Since the 1970s much research has been done in the field of osteoporosis. The number of citations of a paper reflects its influence and importance to the field. Thomson ISI Web of Science database was searched to retrieve a...

A series of experiments designed to examine the most effective way of presenting information in a list of search results, found that presenting the subject of the paper can be of benefit to the user. Several sources can be used to find the paper’s subject, including citation elements found in a list of papers. The purpose of the study was to examine what constitutes the optimal elements in a li...

Recent research has found that select scientists have a disproportional share of highly cited papers. Researchers reasoned this could not happened if success in science was random and introduced hidden parameter Q, or talent, to explain finding. So, the talented high-Q many high impact Here I show an upgrade old citation copying model also In new probability is same for all papers but proportio...

Last year, when d~cussing the 1979 Nobel prizewinners, we introduced a new term-of Nobel class. 1 One major indicator that a scientist is of Nobel class is the publication of several papers of high impact. More often than not, when consistently cited for a long period, such papers can be identified with major breakthroughs. Let’s see whether this is true of the 1980 Nobel prizewinners, and if n...

I commented in an Editorial last year on the importance for academic journals of citations and impact factors (Trayhurn, 2002). I noted that a number of articles published by the BJN over the 50þ years of our existence have been very highly cited, the article receiving most citations being that of Durnin & Rahaman (1967). This paper, which has received over 700 citations, was reproduced in the ...

With the ever-increasing changes and growing scientific output in field of food safety, it has become imperative to measure, analyze, characterize compare existing publications quantitatively. The present study aimed identify analyze characteristics 100 top-cited studies on safety. Food safety articles published Web Science Core Collection database between 1950 2020 were collected, bibliometric...