From European Association of Science Editors
Vol 33(2), May 2007
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Campanario JM, Acedo E. 2007. Rejecting highly cited papers: The views of scientists who encounter resistance to their discoveries from other scientists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(5):734-743.
A useful survey about the difficulties encountered by scientists when trying to have their own articles published. Manuscripts containing new ideas are often rejected, but once they have been published, by using different strategies they can attract many cit ations and become highly relevant.
Csako G. 2007. Analysis of the most highly cited articles from the 50-year history of CCA. Clinica Chimica Acta 375 (1-2):43-48.
Analysis of the most highly cited articles from CCA's history. Lists are based on the ISI/Thomson Scientific database and the country of origin identified by a PubMed search. The total number of citations was positively correlated to the date of publication of the cited articles, with the most highly cited articles appearing at least 8-16 years following their publication. These results may assist in editorial policy-making and marketing decisions and in assessing the impact of individual countries on the field, as well as guiding authors' decisions when submitting articles.
Ioannidis JPA. 2006. Concentration of the most-cited papers in the scientific literature: analysis of journal ecosystems. PLoS One 1(1):e5.
Despite a plethora of available journals, the most influential papers are concentrated in few journals, especially in fields with high citation density. Existing multidisciplinary journals publish selectively the most-cited papers from fields with high citation density. The paper reports and discusses: journals publishing most-cited papers, diversity in specific fields, correlates of species (journal) diversity, concentration in multidisciplinary journals, original articles and reviews, extent of concentration of papers, citations, and most-cited papers.
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