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Most cited papers in Academic Publishing and Open Access

Academic Publishing and Open Access

What are the most cited papers in Academic Publishing and Open Access?

The most cited paper in Academic Publishing and Open Access is "The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis" (Philippe Mongeon, Adèle Paul‐Hus, 2015), with 5,117 citations. Next come "PRISMA2020 : An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020‐compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis" (3,425) and "Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research" (2,499).

Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 293 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
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1 The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis Philippe Mongeon, Adèle Paul‐Hus · Scientometrics Open access 19 Oct 2015 5,117
2 PRISMA2020 : An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020‐compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis Neal Haddaway, Matthew James Page, Chris C. Pritchard et al. · Campbell Systematic Reviews Open access 27 Mar 2022 3,425
3 Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research Per O. Seglen · BMJ Open access 15 Feb 1997 2,499
4 Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories Alberto Martín‐Martín, Enrique Orduña‐Malea, Mike A Thelwall et al. · Journal of Informetrics Open access 5 Oct 2018 1,943
5 A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus et al. · Asian Social Science Open access 27 Apr 2013 1,928
6 The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A comparative analysis Vivek Kumar Singh, Prashasti Singh, Mousumi Karmakar et al. · Scientometrics Open access 26 Mar 2021 1,815
7 A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers Junwen Zhu, Weishu Liu · Scientometrics 22 Feb 2020 1,520
8 The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta‐analyses John P. A. Ioannidis · Milbank Quarterly ReviewOpen access Sep 2016 1,517
9 Science of science Santo Fortunato, Carl T. Bergstrom, Katy Börner et al. · Science Open access Mar 2018 1,455
10 Scopus database: a review Judy F. Burnham · Biomedical Digital Libraries Open access 8 Mar 2006 1,278
11 Web of Science as a data source for research on scientific and scholarly activity Caroline Birkle, David Pendlebury, Joshua D. Schnell et al. · Quantitative Science Studies Open access 23 Jan 2020 1,275
12 The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles Heather Piwowar, Jason R Priem, Vincent Larivière et al. · PeerJ Open access 13 Feb 2018 1,259
13 Citations, Citation Indicators, and Research Quality: An Overview of Basic Concepts and Theories Dag W. Aksnes, Liv Langfeldt, Paul F. Wouters · SAGE Open Open access 2019 1,256
14 NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition S. Adams Becker, Malcolm Brown, Eden Dahlstrom et al. 2017 1,252
15 An open source machine learning framework for efficient and transparent systematic reviews Rens van de Schoot, Jonathan de Bruin, Raoul Schram et al. · Nature Machine Intelligence ReviewOpen access Feb 2021 1,168
16 Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact Günther Eysenbach · Journal of Medical Internet Research Open access 16 Dec 2011 1,131
17 Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations Alberto Martín‐Martín, Mike Thelwall, Enrique Orduna-Malea et al. · Scientometrics Open access 21 Sep 2020 1,001
18 The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index Peder Olesen Larsen, Markus von Ins · Scientometrics Open access 9 Mar 2010 977
19 Does the h index have predictive power? J. E. Hirsch · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 27 Nov 2007 971
20 Predatory publishers are corrupting open access Jeffrey Beall · Nature Open access 11 Sep 2012 965
21 Understanding Financial Conflicts of Interest Dennis Frank Thompson · New England Journal of Medicine 19 Aug 1993 863
22 Reform retractions to make them more transparent Quan‐Hoang Vuong · Nature 8 Jun 2020 834
23 ‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics Cenyu Shen, Bo‐Christer Björk · BMC Medicine Open access Oct 2015 833
24 Do Pressures to Publish Increase Scientists' Bias? An Empirical Support from US States Data Daniele Fanelli · PLoS ONE Open access 21 Apr 2010 829
25 The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009 Mikael Laakso, Patrik Welling, Helena Bukvova et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 13 Jun 2011 774
26 Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science Nisa Bakkalbasi, Kathleen Bauer, Janis G. Glover et al. · Biomedical Digital Libraries Open access 29 Jun 2006 765
27 Do “altmetrics” correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective Rodrigo Costas, Zohreh Zahedi, Paul F. Wouters · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Open access 28 Jul 2014 733
28 Comparing alternatives to the Web of Science for coverage of the social sciences’ literature Michael W. Norris, Charles Oppenheim · Journal of Informetrics 7 Feb 2007 715
29 Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition Marc A. Edwards, Siddhartha Roy · Environmental Engineering Science Open access 22 Sep 2016 709
30 Measuring contextual citation impact of scientific journals Henk F. Moed · Journal of Informetrics 20 Feb 2010 647
31 Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research Yassine Gargouri, Chawki Hajjem, Vincent Larivière et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 18 Oct 2010 611
32 Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality? Somnath Saha, Sanjay K. Saint, Dimitri Christakis · PubMed Open access 2003 589
33 A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric A. Hagberg et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 26 Jun 2009 586
34 The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review Jonathan Peter Tennant, François Waldner, Damien Jacques et al. · F1000Research Open access 21 Sep 2016 574
35 When authorship fails. A proposal to make contributors accountable Drummond Rennie · JAMA 20 Aug 1997 574
36 A bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer of publications on COVID-19 Yuetian Yu, Yujie Li, Zhongheng Zhang et al. · Annals of Translational Medicine Open access Jul 2020 568
37 Reflections on Scientific Collaboration (and its study): Past, Present, and Future Donald de B. Beaver · Scientometrics Nov 2001 531
38 Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009 Bo‐Christer Björk, Patrik Welling, Mikael Laakso et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 23 Jun 2010 529
39 Adams Becker, S.; Cummins, M.; Davis, A.; Freeman, A.; Hall Giesinger, C.; Ananthanarayanan, V. NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium, 2017 Sebastián Gómez Jaramillo · Cuaderno activa Open access 2017 514
40 Team size matters: Collaboration and scientific impact since 1900 Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingras, Cassidy R. Sugimoto et al. · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 6 Nov 2014 495
41 The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape Nicholas Fraser, Liam Brierley, Gautam Kumar Dey et al. · PLoS Biology Open access 2 Apr 2021 490
42 Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices? Blaise Cronin · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2001 484
43 Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact Bo‐Christer Björk, David Solomon · BMC Medicine Open access 17 Jul 2012 483
44 On doing better science: From thrill of discovery to policy implications John Antonakis · The Leadership Quarterly Open access 28 Jan 2017 482
45 Relative indicators and relational charts for comparative assessment of publication output and citation impact András P. Schubert, T. Braun · Scientometrics May 1986 465
46 Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank Björn Brembs, Katherine Susan Button, Marcus Robert Munafo · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Open access 2013 459
47 What is open peer review? A systematic review Tony Ross‐Hellauer · F1000Research ReviewOpen access 31 Aug 2017 458
48 The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations Chun‐Ting Zhang · PLoS ONE Open access 4 May 2009 456
49 Current concepts on bibliometrics: a brief review about impact factor, Eigenfactor score, CiteScore, SCImago Journal Rank, Source-Normalised Impact per Paper, H-index, and alternative metrics Ernesto Roldán-Valadéz, Shirley Yoselin Salazar-Ruiz, Rafael Ibarra-Contreras et al. · Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) 3 Dec 2018 452
50 Cochrane reviews compared with industry supported meta-analyses and other meta-analyses of the same drugs: systematic review Anders W Jørgensen, Jørgen Hilden, Peter Christian Gøtzsche · BMJ ReviewOpen access 6 Oct 2006 448

Citations are OpenAlex's own counts, from its 2026-09-23 snapshot, so the ranking can differ from Google Scholar or Web of Science. A paper is listed for a field when OpenAlex files it under one of the field's topics; retracted papers and papers whose citation count cannot be traced to citing works are left out, and a preprint and the article it became are shown once. Release dates are OpenAlex's: where a source gave only a month or a year, that is what is shown. How the lists are chosen.