BACKGROUND The number of citations received is considered an index of study quality and impact. We aimed to examine the factors associated with the number of citations of published articles, focusing on the article length. METHODS Original human studies published in the first trimester of 2006 in 5 major General Medicine journals were analyzed with regard to the number of authors and of autho...

Similarity estimation among publications is very important in classification and clustering techniques for grouping, indexing, citation matching and Author Name Disambiguation (AND) purposes. Publication attributes are basic sources of information and play important role in similarity estimation. Most of the works in AND use title, co-authors and venue attributes for estimating similarity among...

ne of the most important but underappreciated and probably least discussed section of a paper is the list of references at the end. As Editors, we are occasionally reminded about how this section can raise issues for our decision-making. We are sometimes amazed at the rather superficial treatment accorded to this section; some papers come with too many and only remotely relevant citations and o...

We investigated two strategies for improving Information Retrieval thanks to incoming and outgoing citations. We first started from settings that worked last year and established a baseline. Then, we tried to rerank this run. The incoming citations’ strategy was to compute the number of incoming citations in PubMed Central, and to boost the score of the articles that were the most cited. The ou...