highly cited papers are mostly authored in international collaboration. it is expected that   co-authored papers bring more citations. on the other hand, it is inevitable that a part of citations is self-citation. this study investigates 134 and 236 highly cited papers in iran and turkey, respectively, to determine the extent to which highly cited papers are affected by author self-citation. a ...

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...