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The science that’s never been cited.
Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0
Publishing by--and for?--the numbers
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/250/4986/1331
Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0
One widely repeated estimate, reported in a controversial article in Science in 1990, suggests that more than half of all academic articles remain uncited five years after their publication2. Scientists genuinely fret about this issue, says Jevin West, an information scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle who studies large-scale patterns in research literature. After all, citations are widely recognized as a standard measure of academic influence: a marker that work not only has been read, but also has proved useful to later studies. Researchers worry that high rates of uncitedness point to a heap of useless or irrelevant research. “I can’t tell you how many people over dinner have asked me: ‘How much of the literature is never cited?’” West says.
Publishing by--and for?--the numbers
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/250/4986/1331