Overcitation and overrepresentation of review papers in the most cited papers

Miranda, Rubén; García-Carpintero, Esther

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2018.08.006

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“…Even so, the large number of papers published by Chinese authors is not reflected in the quality of the publications, in terms of their impact factors. As for other fields of research, there is a clear trend for some papers, in particular, reviews and methodological studies, to have a long-lasting influence and to be cited widely [58], while the vast majority of papers are cited infrequently or not at all. Even so, no systematic relationship was found between the publication date of the paper and the number of times it was cited, which may mean that many recent papers have yet to have an impact, while many older papers are already outdated [59].…”

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Recent Trends in Research on the Genetic Diversity of Plants: Implications for Conservation

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Genetic diversity and its distribution, both within and between populations, may be determined by micro-evolutionary processes, such as the demographic history of populations, natural selection, and gene flow. In plants, indices of genetic diversity (e.g., k, h and π) and structure (e.g., FST) are typically inferred from sequences of chloroplast markers. Given the recent advances and popularization of molecular techniques for research in population genetics, phylogenetics, phylogeography, and ecology, we adopted a scientometric approach to compile evidence on the recent trends in the use of cpDNA sequences as markers for the analysis of genetic diversity in botanical studies, over the years. We also used phylogenetic modeling to assess the relative contribution of relatedness or ecological and reproductive characters to the genetic diversity of plants. We postulated that genetic diversity could be defined not only by microevolutionary factors and life history traits, but also by relatedness, so that species more closely related phylogenetically would have similar genetic diversities. We found a clear tendency for an increase in the number of studies over time, confirming the hypothesis that the advances in the area of molecular genetics have supported the accumulation of data on the genetic diversity of plants. However, we found that the vast majority of these data have been produced by Chinese authors, and refer specifically to populations of Chinese plants. Most of the data on genetic diversity have been obtained for species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) category NE (Not Evaluated), which indicates a relative lack of attention on threatened species. In general, we observed very high FST values in the groups analyzed and, as we focused primarily on species that have not been evaluated by the IUCN, the number of plant species that are threatened with extinction may be much greater than that indicated by the listing of this organization. We also found that the number of haplotypes (k) was influenced by the type of geographic distribution of the plant, while haplotype diversity (h) was affected by the type of flower, and the fixation index (FST), by the type of habitat. The plant species most closely-related phylogenetically have similar levels of genetic diversity. Overall, then, it will important to consider phylogenetic dependence in future studies that evaluate the effects of life-history traits on plant genetic diversity.

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Recent Trends in Research on the Genetic Diversity of Plants: Implications for Conservation

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“…Due to their higher impact, a relative increase of the percentage of review publication seems to be one of the most feasible strategies (Falagas and Alexiou 2008;Metze 2010). Since review articles are commonly perceived as highly cited document types (Knottnerus and Knottnerus 2009;Lei and Sun 2020;Miranda and Garcia-Carpintero 2018), there might be temptation to systematically commission review articles to highly reputed authors in order to keep up in that competition. Currently, we find little research about the editorial practices and the relationships between the different groups of a journal which would justify a more substantial claim.…”

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“…There are several hypotheses indicating that review articles are more likely being written by rather established or respected scholars in a given field. But, as the writing of review articles becomes more prestigious and known for being instrumental to gain citation counts, younger scholars may also be inclined to include the writing of review articles in their publication strategy (Miranda and Garcia-Carpintero 2018). Hence, what academic age do authors of review articles have?…”

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Studying review articles in scientometrics and beyond: a research agenda

Blümel

Schniedermann

2020

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Review articles are an often neglected genre in scholarly communication. Though there was intense discussion about review articles in scientometrics in the 1970s and 1980s, we find less studies devoted to this genre within the last 20 years. Yet, recent discussions in other fields, such as linguistics, sociology or medicine imply that review articles are part of important debates about problems of research in academia, such as research quality or transparency. Against that background, the purpose of this paper is to review recent developments for the study of review articles in scientometrics and beyond, to discuss theoretical, conceptual and empirical accounts of how review articles can be defined, and to identify major methodological and conceptual challenges for studying review articles. Based on reviewing work and inputs received from of a workshop conducted at a Conference of the International Society of Informetrics in September 2019, we propose a research agenda for the study of review articles. We have identified six realms of study in this area: (1) the study of methodological caveats resulting from the usage of scholarly databases, (2) the study of field specific patterns of reception and usage of review articles, (3) the study of argumentative and textual structures of review articles, (4) the exploration of organizations and infrastructures for review articles, (5) the study of epistemic roles of review articles, and (6) the analysis of authorship patterns in review articles.

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“…Several studies have explored the relationship between a paper's citation count and the characteristics of its references. Authors have demonstrated a positive relationship between citation count and number of references (e.g., Antoniou et al 2015;Biscaro and Giupponi 2014;Bornmann et al 2014;Chen 2012;Didegah and Thelwall 2013;Falagas et al 2013;Gargouri et al 2010;Haslam and Koval 2010;Lokker et al 2008;Mou et al 2018;Onodera and Yoshikane 2015;Roth et al 2012;So et al 2015;van Wesel et al 2014;, citedness of references (Bornmann et al 2012;Mou et al 2018), age of references (Roth et al 2012), interdisciplinarity of references (Chakraborty et al 2014), and document types of references (Miranda and Garcia-Carpintero 2018;Mou et al 2018). These previous studies suggest that the number, diversity, prestige, and timeliness of absorbed knowledge can affect scientific impact of a published work.…”

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The citation advantage of foreign language references for Chinese social science papers

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Contemporary scientific exchanges are international, yet language continues to be a persistent barrier to scientific communication, particularly for non-native English-speaking scholars. Since the ability to absorb knowledge has a strong impact on how researchers create new scientific knowledge, a comprehensive access to and understanding of both domestic and international scientific publications is essential for scientific performance. This study explores the effect of absorbed knowledge on research impact by analyzing the relationship between the language diversity of cited references and the number of citations received by the citing paper. Chinese social sciences are taken as the research object, and the data, 950,302 papers published between 1998 and 2013 with 8,151,327 cited references, were collected from the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI). Results show that there is a stark increase in the consumption of foreign language material within the Chinese social science community, and English material accounts for the vast majority of this consumption. Papers with foreign language references receive significantly more citations than those without, and the citation advantage of these internationalized work holds when we control for characteristics of the citing papers, such as the discipline, prestige of journal, prestige of institution, and scientific collaboration. However, the citation advantage has decreased from 1998 to 2008, largely as an artifact of the increased number of papers citing foreign language material. After 2008, however, the decline of the citation advantage subsided and became relatively stable, which suggests that incorporating foreign language literature continues to increase scientific impact, even as the scientific community itself becomes increasingly international. However, internationalization is not without concerns: the work closes with a discussion of the benefits and potential problems of the lack of linguistic diversity in scientific communication.

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Overcitation and overrepresentation of review papers in the most cited papers

Cited by 75 publications

References 15 publications

Recent Trends in Research on the Genetic Diversity of Plants: Implications for Conservation

Recent Trends in Research on the Genetic Diversity of Plants: Implications for Conservation

Studying review articles in scientometrics and beyond: a research agenda

The citation advantage of foreign language references for Chinese social science papers

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