Stern R S, Arndt K A
Department of Dermatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02215, USA.
Arch Dermatol. 1999 Mar;135(3):299-302. doi: 10.1001/archderm.135.3.299.
One measure of the impact of a medical article is how often it is cited in other articles. Many authors of articles published in dermatologic journals are seldom, if ever, cited while other authors are often cited.
To identify the 25 authors whose publications in the dermatology literature were most often cited.
We obtained a citation database from the Institute for Scientific Information. From this database we separately quantified the total number of citations for each author and the total number of citations to first authors of original articles.
Dermatology journals.
All authors of papers published in 24 dermatology journals between 1981 and 1996.
None.
Number of citations.
If all articles irrespective of the author's listing (eg, first or second) are counted, the top 25 cited authors in the dermatology literature from 1981 to 1996 were cited between 1480 and 4706 times. If only citations and articles of which an author was the first listed author are counted, the top 25 authors were cited between 400 and 813 times. Only 4 authors were among the top 25 cited authors by both criteria.
A relatively small proportion of all authors account for a high proportion of all citations of the dermatologic literature. The most frequently cited first authors of original articles were different in 84% of cases from the most often cited authors of all papers irrespective of the individuals placement in the authorship listing.
衡量一篇医学文章影响力的一个指标是它在其他文章中的被引用频率。发表在皮肤科杂志上的许多文章的作者很少（如果有的话）被引用，而其他作者则经常被引用。
确定在皮肤科文献中发表的文章被引用次数最多的25位作者。
我们从科学信息研究所获得了一个引文数据库。从这个数据库中，我们分别量化了每位作者的总被引用次数以及原创文章第一作者的总被引用次数。
皮肤科杂志。
1981年至1996年间在24种皮肤科杂志上发表论文的所有作者。
无。
被引用次数。
如果统计所有文章（无论作者排名，如第一或第二），1981年至1996年间皮肤科文献中被引用次数最多的前25位作者的被引用次数在1480次至4706次之间。如果只统计作者为第一作者的引用和文章，前25位作者的被引用次数在400次至813次之间。两种标准下，只有4位作者在前25位被引用作者之列。
在所有作者中，相对较小比例的作者占了皮肤科文献所有引用的很大比例。在84%的情况下，原创文章中被引用最频繁的第一作者与所有文章中被引用最频繁的作者不同，无论个人在作者名单中的位置如何。
