Are uncited papers necessarily all nonimpact papers? A quantitative analysis

Hou, Jianhua; Ye, Jiantao

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03539-w

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“…The proper assessment of uncitedness is important for research policies (Garfield, 1991;Seglen, 1992;van Noorden, 2017). Information scientists made a large contribution to the empirical characterization of the number and composition of uncited papers, they studied how uncitedness depends on the discipline, document kind, country, and year (Dorta-Gonzalez, Suarez-Vega, & Dorta-Gonzalez, 2020;Hou & Ye, 2020;Thelwall, 2016a;van Leeuwen & Moed, 2005;Wallace, Lariviere, & Gingras, 2009). The measurements of uncitedness have been recently reviewed by Nicolaisen and Frandsen (2019) and a summary of the subject has been presented by van Noorden (2017) and Sugimoto and Lariviere (2018).…”

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Uncited papers are not useless

Golosovsky

Larivière

2021

Quantitative Science Studies

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We study citation dynamics of the papers published in three scientific disciplines (Physics, Economics, and Mathematics) and four broad scientific categories (Medical, Natural, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities). We measure the uncitedness ratio, namely, the fraction of uncited papers in these datasets and its dependence on the time following publication. These measurements are compared with the model of citation dynamics which considers acquiring citations as an inhomogeneous Poisson process. The model captures the fraction of uncited papers in our collections fairly well, suggesting that uncitedness is an inevitable consequence of the Poisson statistics. Peer Review https://publons.com/publon/10.1162/qss_a_00142

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