Citations of research papers and citation-related indicators are frequently used factors in determining research priorities, allocating funding, and deciding appointments, promotions and tenures. The main problem with using citations for a variety of evaluations is a substantial difference in the average number of citations received by papers in different research fields and subfields. A large ...

BACKGROUND One measure of the impact of a medical article is how often it is cited in other articles. Many authors of articles published in dermatologic journals are seldom, if ever, cited while other authors are often cited. OBJECTIVE To identify the 25 authors whose publications in the dermatology literature were most often cited. DESIGN We obtained a citation database from the Institute ...

The 100most-cited papers in the 1945-1988Science CitafionIndex” (SCF’) are identified. For each paper the list shows total citations, average annual citations, and 1988 citations. Citation Cfassic” commentaries on 50 of the SCI Top 100 have beerr published to date. Don T, Cromer, University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, is first author of three papers on the list,...

This paper studies massive evidence about references made and citations received after a five-year citation window by 3.7 million articles published in 1998-2002 in 22 scientific fields. We find that the distributions of references made and citations received share a number of basic features across sciences. Reference distributions are rather skewed to the right, while citation distributions ar...

OBJECTIVE To document one dimension of the impact of an epidemiological study through citations in scientific journals. METHODS Two sets of articles from studies performed in France were considered. They presented original results on occupational risk factors for low back pain and upper limb disorders. Citations of these articles were retrieved through the Web of Science and Google Scholar, a...

F the few scientists who earn a Nobel prize, the impact and relevance of their research is unquestionable. Among the rest of us, how does one quantify the cumulative impact and relevance of an individual’s scientific research output? In a world of limited resources, such quantification (even if potentially distasteful) is often needed for evaluation and comparison purposes (e.g., for university...

The goal of this study was to determine the research impact of scientific fraud through citation analysis of 20 Breuning publications, using the 1980 to 1988 Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. These publications received 200 citations, of which 80 (40.0%) were self-citations by Breuning or his coauthors. Tracked over time, non--self-citations declined sharply in 1986 and...

Thomas E. Nisonger is an Associate Professor in the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington; e-mail: [email protected]. The author thanks his two graduate assistants at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science, Jason Cooper and Leah Broaddus, who helped tabulate data; his wife, Claire Nisonger, who helped search for Web citations; and De...