Most cited papers in scientometrics and bibliometrics research
What are the most cited papers in scientometrics and bibliometrics research?
The most cited paper in scientometrics and bibliometrics research is "How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: An overview and guidelines" (Naveen Donthu, Satish Kumar, Debmalya Mukherjee et al., 2021), with 13,768 citations. Next come "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output" (11,729) and "Updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews" (7,615).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 929 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: An overview and guidelines Naveen Donthu, Satish Kumar, Debmalya Mukherjee et al. · Journal of Business Research | 14 May 2021 | 13,768 |
| 2 | An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output J. E. Hirsch · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 7 Nov 2005 | 11,729 |
| 3 | Updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews Micah D.J. Peters, Casey Marnie, Andrea C. Tricco et al. · JBI Evidence Synthesis | 22 Sep 2020 | 7,615 |
| 4 | Analyzing the Past to Prepare for the Future: Writing a Literature Review Jane Webster, Richard Thomas Watson · MIS Quarterly | Jun 2002 | 7,348 |
| 5 | Bibliometric Methods in Management and Organization Ivan Župič, Tomaž Čater · Organizational Research Methods | 22 Dec 2014 | 7,271 |
| 6 | The Matthew Effect in Science Robert Κ. Merton · Science | 5 Jan 1968 | 6,530 |
| 7 | The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis Philippe Mongeon, Adèle Paul‐Hus · Scientometrics | 19 Oct 2015 | 5,117 |
| 8 | Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses Matthew E. Falagas, Eleni I. Pitsouni, George A. Malietzis et al. · The FASEB Journal | 20 Sep 2007 | 5,038 |
| 9 | Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement David Moher, Deborah J Cook, Susan Eastwood et al. · The Lancet | Nov 1999 | 4,836 |
| 10 | Why Most Published Research Findings Are False John P. A. Ioannidis · CHANCE | Sep 2005 | 4,831 |
| 11 | The structure of scientific collaboration networks Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9 Jan 2001 | 4,550 |
| 12 | The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. Jones, Brian Uzzi · Science | 12 Apr 2007 | 3,695 |
| 13 | A manifesto for reproducible science Marcus Robert Munafo, Brian A. Nosek, Dorothy Bishop et al. · Nature Human Behaviour | 10 Jan 2017 | 3,631 |
| 14 | Networks of Scientific Papers Derek J. de Solla Price · Science | 30 Jul 1965 | 3,165 |
| 15 | The bibliometric analysis of scholarly production: How great is the impact? Ole Ellegaard, Johan Albert Wallin · Scientometrics | 27 Jul 2015 | 3,145 |
| 16 | What is research collaboration? J. Sylvan Katz, Ben R. Martin · Research Policy | Mar 1997 | 3,001 |
| 17 | Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics Diana M. Hicks, Paul F. Wouters, Ludo Waltman et al. · Nature | 17 Apr 2015 | 2,824 |
| 18 | The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor Eugene Garfield · JAMA | 3 Jan 2006 | 2,807 |
| 19 | An approach for detecting, quantifying, and visualizing the evolution of a research field: A practical application to the Fuzzy Sets Theory field Manuel J. Cobo, Antonio Gabriel López-Herrera, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma et al. · Journal of Informetrics | 4 Nov 2010 | 2,724 |
| 20 | Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World Raminta Pranckutė · Publications | 12 Mar 2021 | 2,601 |
| 21 | Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research Per O. Seglen · BMJ | 15 Feb 1997 | 2,499 |
| 22 | The Role of Google Scholar in Evidence Reviews and Its Applicability to Grey Literature Searching Neal Haddaway, Alexandra Collins, Deborah Coughlin et al. · PLoS ONE | 17 Sep 2015 | 2,434 |
| 23 | Theory and practise of the g-index Leo Egghe · Scientometrics | 11 Sep 2006 | 2,350 |
| 24 | Which academic search systems are suitable for systematic reviews or meta‐analyses? Evaluating retrieval qualities of Google Scholar, PubMed, and 26 other resources Michael Gusenbauer, Neal Haddaway · Research Synthesis Methods | 15 Oct 2019 | 2,310 |
| 25 | Systematic Reviews: Identifying relevant studies for systematic reviews Kay Dickersin, Roberta W. Scherer, Carol A. Lefebvre · BMJ | 12 Nov 1994 | 2,275 |
| 26 | Evolution of the social network of scientific collaborations A.L Barabási, H Jeong, Z Néda et al. · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | Aug 2002 | 2,163 |
| 27 | Optimal database combinations for literature searches in systematic reviews: a prospective exploratory study Wichor Matthijs Bramer, Melissa Lyle Rethlefsen, Jos Kleijnen et al. · Systematic Reviews | Dec 2017 | 2,131 |
| 28 | HARKing: Hypothesizing After the Results are Known Norbert L. Kerr · Personality and Social Psychology Review | Aug 1998 | 2,126 |
| 29 | A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes Derek de Solla Price · Journal of the American Society for Information Science | Sep 1976 | 2,088 |
| 30 | Co-word analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemsitry Michel Callon, J Courtial, Françoise Laville · Scientometrics | Sep 1991 | 2,082 |
| 31 | Scopus as a curated, high-quality bibliometric data source for academic research in quantitative science studies Jeroen Baas, Michiel Schotten, Andrew Plume et al. · Quantitative Science Studies | 23 Jan 2020 | 2,049 |
| 32 | Science Mapping: A Systematic Review of the Literature Chaomei Chen · Journal of Data and Information Science | 21 Mar 2017 | 1,954 |
| 33 | 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 | 5 Oct 2018 | 1,943 |
| 34 | 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 | 27 Apr 2013 | 1,928 |
| 35 | CINeMA: An approach for assessing confidence in the results of a network meta-analysis Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Julian P. T. Higgins, Theodoros Papakonstantinou et al. · PLoS Medicine | 3 Apr 2020 | 1,912 |
| 36 | The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A comparative analysis Vivek Kumar Singh, Prashasti Singh, Mousumi Karmakar et al. · Scientometrics | 26 Mar 2021 | 1,815 |
| 37 | Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison Anne-Wil K. Harzing, Satu Alakangas · Scientometrics | 26 Nov 2015 | 1,792 |
| 38 | Software tools for conducting bibliometric analysis in science: An up-to-date review José A. Moral-Muñoz, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma, Antonio Santisteban‐Espejo et al. · El Profesional de la Informacion | 19 Jan 2020 | 1,674 |
| 39 | The Impact of Research Collaboration on Scientific Productivity Sooho Lee, Barry L. Bozeman · Social Studies of Science | 6 Sep 2005 | 1,673 |
| 40 | Toward a definition of “bibliometrics” Robert N. Broadus · Scientometrics | Nov 1987 | 1,659 |
| 41 | Conducting systematic literature reviews and bibliometric analyses Martina K. Linnenluecke, Mauricio Marrone, Abhay Kumar Singh · Australian Journal of Management | 3 Oct 2019 | 1,645 |
| 42 | Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer Annie Franco, Neil A. Malhotra, Gábor Simonovits · Science | 29 Aug 2014 | 1,625 |
| 43 | Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 Colin F. Camerer et al. · Nature Human Behaviour | 17 Aug 2018 | 1,620 |
| 44 | What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior Lutz Bornmann, Hans‐Dieter Daniel · Journal of Documentation | 18 Jan 2008 | 1,611 |
| 45 | Growth rates of modern science: A bibliometric analysis based on the number of publications and cited references Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology | 29 Apr 2015 | 1,593 |
| 46 | Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science Vincent Larivière, Chaoqun Ni, Yves Gingras et al. · Nature | 6 Dec 2013 | 1,534 |
| 47 | 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 |
| 48 | Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact Brian Uzzi, Satyam Mukherjee, Michael J. Stringer et al. · Science | 24 Oct 2013 | 1,495 |
| 49 | P-curve: A key to the file-drawer. Uri Simonsohn, Leif D. Nelson, Joseph P. Simmons · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | 15 Jul 2013 | 1,483 |
| 50 | Gray literature: An important resource in systematic reviews Arsenio Páez · Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine | Aug 2017 | 1,477 |
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