Stern R S, Arndt K A
Department of Dermatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Arch Dermatol. 1999 Aug;135(8):948-50. doi: 10.1001/archderm.135.8.948.
Only a small fraction of articles published in the dermatologic literature are cited frequently. Articles cited at least 100 times are known as "citation classics" and have been previously discussed. The nature of dermatologic articles cited fewer than 100 times but still much more frequently cited than average has not been clearly elucidated.
To identify the source, authorship, and citation history of original articles published in 24 dermatologic journals that were cited more than 25 times.
We analyzed a citation database provided by the Institute for Scientific Information. We identified the journal of publication, authorship, and country of authorship for all original articles cited at least 25 times and published from 1982 to 1996 in 24 dermatologic journals.
Source of most frequently cited dermatologic articles.
Only 2139 (6.45%) of all original articles were cited more than 25 times. Articles published in 4 of 24 journals accounted for the most frequently cited articles. Only 18 (0.13%) of more than 13,500 first authors published at least 5 articles that were cited more than 25 times.
Few articles are cited at least 25 times, and few persons are first authors of multiple articles in the dermatologic literature cited at least that frequently.
皮肤病学文献中发表的文章只有一小部分被频繁引用。被引用至少100次的文章被称为“经典引用文献”，此前已有过相关讨论。而被引用次数少于100次但仍远高于平均水平的皮肤病学文章的性质尚未得到明确阐释。
确定在24种皮肤病学杂志上发表的被引用超过25次的原创文章的来源、作者及引用历史。
我们分析了科学信息研究所提供的一个引用数据库。我们确定了1982年至1996年在24种皮肤病学杂志上发表的所有被引用至少25次的原创文章的发表期刊、作者及作者所在国家。
最常被引用的皮肤病学文章的来源。
所有原创文章中只有2139篇（6.45%）被引用超过25次。24种期刊中的4种期刊发表的文章被引用次数最多。在13500多名第一作者中，只有18人（0.13%）发表了至少5篇被引用超过25次的文章。
很少有文章被引用至少25次，在皮肤病学文献中，很少有人是多篇被如此频繁引用文章的第一作者。
