There are times when a new editor ponders the iron triangle of quality submissions, readership, and citations, how to improve them. It was during such musing that colleague from UTS/OJS pointed out this journal had produced suite highly cited papers continuing grow. They went on illustrate point with list stopped at lower limit 30 observing there every likelihood further good, recently publishe...

This essay concludes a two-part examination of 102 highly cited papers and books in the life sciences, 1945-1954. In this patt, the five moat-cited works are featured, along with some highlights and key developmen~ of the decade-notably, work in endocrinology, protein structures, and wparation techniques. The contributions of Nobel laureates from this era are also examined. As in several previo...

The 102 articles listed in the Bibliography at the end of this analysis constitute the ninth group of most-cited papers that we have presented from the 1961-1982 Science Citation Indexn (SCF ). The list of papers discussed here includes Frank Wilcoxon’s classic 1945 Biometrics article on ranking methods. The following year Wilcoxon published his highly cited book, Some Rapid Approximate Statist...

Leading nations can be distinguished in terms of whether domestic or international research is cited. We analyzed the research output of three leading European research economies (Germany, the Netherlands, and UK) and ask where their researchers look for the knowledge that underpins their most highly-cited papers. Is one internationally oriented or is citation restricted to national resources? ...