Published in:
01-12-2019 | Concise Research Reports
Uncitedness in the Top General Medical Journals
Authors:
M. Hossein Nowroozzadeh, MD, Mohammad Salehi-Marzijarani, PhD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 12/2019
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Excerpt
Uncited research has received much attention due to its extent and impact on scholarship.
1 It has been claimed that articles without a single citation do not have any constructive effect on future research and might be a waste of resources.
1 Thus, the percent of uncited articles in any given journal could be considered as a measure of abundance of low-impact articles within that journal, very much like the
impact factor (IF) that serves as an index of average impact of all published papers in a given journal. …