Historically, papers have been physically bound to the journal in which they were published but in the electronic age papers are available individually, no longer tied to their respective journals. Hence, papers now can be read and cited based on their own merits, independently of the journal's physical availability, reputation, or Impact Factor. We compare the strength of the relationship betw...

In the first part of this essay, we presented a groupof100 highly cited papers from the Science Citation Irrdex@ (SCP ), 19551986.1 That essay, as we mentioned, expands and updates our previous series on the 1,000 most-cited papers in the SCf, 19611982,2 and an essay on 250 highly cited papers from 1955 to 1964.3 All of these papers are by definition Citation Classicsa. In this essay, we’ll dis...

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...