BACKGROUND In addition to publishing in the dermatologic literature, some dermatologists also publish articles in the general medical journals, which enjoy wide circulation and whose articles are often cited. OBJECTIVE To identify articles and citations to these articles that the most frequently cited authors in the dermatologic literature published in highly cited general medical journals. ...

In the recently concluded series on the 1,000 articles most cited in the Science Citation Inde# (.SCP ), 1961 to 1982, I drew attention to the many Nobel laureates who were authors of one or more of these highly cited papers. 1 It was no surprise that 14 percent of the 1,000 papers were written by Nobel Prize winners, since we knew that as a group they are heavily cited. In 1965 Irv Sher, ISP’s...

Over the last few decades, the massification of quantitative evaluations of science and their institutionalisation in several countries has led many researchers to aim at publishing as much as possible. This paper assesses the potential adverse effects of this behaviour by analysing the relationship between individual researchers’ productivity and their proportion of highly cited papers. In oth...

There is increasing evidence that citations to Chinese research publications are rising sharply. A series of reasons have been highlighted in previous studies. This research explores another possibility—whether there is a “clubbing” effect in China’s surge in research citations, in which a higher rate of internal citing takes place among influential Chinese researchers. Focusing on the most hig...