Abstract:OBJECTIVE: Currently, the assessment by journal reviewers of whether or not an article is likely to be highly cited in the future is entirely subjective. The objective of this study was to examine, in a high impact general obstetrics and gynecology journal, the association between characteristics of published papers in obstetrics and gynecology and the citation frequency in the first 5 years postpublication. STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective cohort study in which the baseline "cohort" was the population o… Show more
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