Characteristics of highly cited papers

Aksnes, Dag W.

doi:10.3152/147154403781776645

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“…The number of authors on an article also contributes to citation rates (Aksnes, 2003;Judge, et al, 2007). This finding is interesting and could be explained by several reasons including a broader author knowledge resource base, increased possibility of international collaboration, and the distribution of results to a larger co-author network; there is also the possibility of higher rates of self-citation stemming from more authors, though this explanation does not seem to matter for highly-cited articles (Aksnes, 2003).…”

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“…We briefly present some of these findings, which provide a basis for the types of information we coded for in the articles we analyzed. Citations have field-specific as well as individual and institutional determinants (Antonakis & Lalive, 2008;Judge, et al, 2007); although journal prestige also plays an important role (Aksnes, 2003;Judge, et al, 2007), this determinant as well as field differences are irrelevant for our study given that our analyses were only undertaken on one journal. Articles that have higher methodological rigor produce results that are more valid and are cited more often (Bergh, et al, 2006).…”

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“…Understanding the ingredients of highly cited articles has attracted the attention of some scholars (e.g., Aksnes, 2003;Persson, 2010). However, this area of research is poorly understood in management (Judge, et al, 2007).…”

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What makes articles highly cited?

Antonakis

Bastardoz

Liu

et al. 2014

The Leadership Quarterly

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We examined drivers of article citations using 776 articles that were published from 1990-2012 in a broad-based and high-impact social sciences journal, The Leadership Quarterly. These articles had 1,191 unique authors having published and received in total (at the time of their most recent article published in our dataset) 16,817 articles and 284,777 citations, respectively. Our models explained 66.6% of the variance in citations and showed that quantitative, review, method, and theory articles were significantly more cited than were qualitative articles or agentbased simulations. As concerns quantitative articles, which constituted the majority of the sample, our model explained 80.3% of the variance in citations; some methods (e.g., use of SEM) and designs (e.g., meta-analysis), as well as theoretical approaches (e.g., use of transformational, charismatic, or visionary type-leadership theories) predicted higher article citations. Regarding the statistical conclusion validity of quantitative articles, articles having endogeneity threats received significantly fewer citations than did those using a more robust design or an estimation procedure that ensured correct causal estimation. We make several general recommendations on how to improve research practice and article citations.

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What makes articles highly cited?

Antonakis

Bastardoz

Liu

et al. 2014

The Leadership Quarterly

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“…For example, Garfield and Welljamsdorof (1992) analysed whether rankings of highly cited authors confirmed or even predicted Noble prize awards. Indeed, highly cited units of analysis (i.e., articles, authors, groups or institutions) have become a common denominator for excellence (e.g., Tijssen, Visser & van Leeuwen, 2002;Aksnes, 2003), and the target for predicting potential breakthrough research (e.g., Ponomarev et al, 2014b). Identification and model building are typically retrospective in as much as excellent or breakthrough research is determined by other means than citation analyses and then from the citation patterns of these exemplars, comparisons and predictions are made.…”

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Identifying potential “breakthrough” publications using refined citation analyses: Three related explorative approaches

Schneider

Costas

2016

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The article presents three advanced citation-based methods used to detect potential breakthrough papers among very highly cited papers. We approach the detection of such papers from three different perspectives in order to provide different typologies of breakthrough papers. In all three cases we use the classification of scientific publications developed at CWTS based on direct citation relationships. This classification establishes clusters of papers at three levels of aggregation.Papers are clustered based on their similar citation orientations and it is assumed that they are focused on similar research interests. We use the clustering as the context for detecting potential breakthrough papers. We utilize the Characteristics Scores and Scales (CSS) approach to partition citation distributions and implement a specific filtering algorithm to sort out potential highly-cited 'followers', papers not considered breakthroughs in themselves. After invoking thresholds and filtering, three methods are explored: A very exclusive one where only the highest cited paper in a micro-cluster is considered as a potential breakthrough paper (M1); as well as two conceptually different methods, one that detects potential breakthrough papers among the two percent highest cited papers according to CSS (M2a), and finally a more restrictive version where, in addition to the CSS two percent filter, knowledge diffusion is also taken in as an extra parameter (M2b). The advance citation-based methods are explored and evaluated using specifically validated publication sets linked to different Danish funding instruments including centres of excellence.

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“…Another important impact indices and methods are planned to investigate in the near future, e.g. g-index (Egghe, 2006), highly cited papers (Aksnes, 2003;Aksnes & Taxt, 2004), percentile distribution of publications by citation Leydesdorff & Opthof, 2011).…”

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Would it be possible to increase the Hirsch-index, π-index or CDS-index by increasing the number of publications or citations only by unity?

Vinkler

2013

Journal of Informetrics

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The aim of the study is to explore the effects of the increase in the number of publications or citations on several impact indicators by a single journal paper or citation. The possible change of the h-index, A-index, R-index, -index, -rate, Journal Paper Citedness (JPC), and Citation Distribution Score (CDS) is followed by models. Particular attention is given to the increase of the indices by a single plus citation. The results obtained by the "Successively Built-up Indicator" model show that with increasing number of citations or self-citations the indices may increase substantially.

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Characteristics of highly cited papers

Cited by 412 publications

References 11 publications

What makes articles highly cited?

What makes articles highly cited?

Identifying potential “breakthrough” publications using refined citation analyses: Three related explorative approaches

Would it be possible to increase the Hirsch-index, π-index or CDS-index by increasing the number of publications or citations only by unity?

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