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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 12/2019

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 | Issue 12/2019

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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. …
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Title
Uncitedness in the Top General Medical Journals
Authors
M. Hossein Nowroozzadeh, MD
Mohammad Salehi-Marzijarani, PhD
Publication date
01-12-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 12/2019
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05290-2

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