The majority of academic papers are scarcely cited while a few others are highly cited. A
large number of studies indicate that there are many factors influencing the number of …

We aimed to analyze the evidence on the effects of physical exercise in patients with
fibromyalgia (FM) and to assess the characteristics of published studies, especially the …

Citations are important building blocks for status and success in science. We used a linked
dataset of more than 4 million authors and 26 million scientific papers to quantify trends in …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the research output on “library and
information science”(LIS) research domain in South Africa. It also highlights the top LIS …

We examined the long-term impact of coauthorship with established, highly-cited scientists
on the careers of junior researchers in four scientific disciplines. Here, using matched pair …

This study assesses whether eleven factors associate with higher impact research:
individual, institutional and international collaboration; journal and reference impacts; …

Interdisciplinary research is increasingly recognized as the solution to today's challenging
scientific and societal problems, but the relationship between interdisciplinary research and …

A number of bibliometric studies point out that citation counts are a function of many
variables besides scientific quality. In this paper our aim is to investigate these factors that …

This study provides a conceptual overview of the literature dealing with the process of citing
documents (focusing on the literature from the recent decade). It presents theories, which …

Databases catalogue the corpus of research literature into scientific categories and report
classes of bibliometric data such as the number of citations to articles, the number of …