“…Comparative evaluation of top papers is also widely used in bibliometric studies. Top papers are of interest to researchers in many different disciplines, and among such papers/topics could be mentioned: outputs of OIC member countries in the Essential Science Indicators database (GhaviDel and Mostafavi 2021), highly cited papers in the field of Economics and Business based on the Essential Science Indicators database (Zhang et al 2018), highly cited papers in operations research and management science from 2008 to 2017 (Liao et al 2019), highly cited papers in environmental sciences (Ma et al 2020) or macro-level collaboration network analysis and visualization with Essential Science Indicators: A case of social sciences (Yang et al 2020). Sun and Yuan have analyzed the top papers in Library and Information Science (Sun and Yuan 2020), Agronomy category (Sun and Yuan 2021), scientific research on maize or corn (Yuan and Sun 2020), research trend and status of forestry based on Essential Science Indicators during 2010–2020 (Yuan and Sun 2021).…”