Jones A W
Department of Forensic Toxicology, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.
Sci Justice. 2005 Oct-Dec;45(4):175-82. doi: 10.1016/S1355-0306(05)71661-0.
Forensic science is a multidisciplinary field, which covers many branches of the pure, the applied and the biomedical sciences. Writing-up and publishing research findings helps to enhance the reputation of the investigators and the laboratories where the work was done. The number of times an article is cited in the reference lists of other articles is generally accepted as a mark of distinction. Indeed, citation analysis has become widely used in research assessment of individual scientists, university departments and entire nations. This article concerns the most highly cited papers published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences (JFS) between 1956 and 2005. These were identified with the help of Web-of-Science, which is the on-line version of Science Citation Index, produced by Thomson Institute for Scientific Information (Thomson ISI) with head offices in Philadelphia, USA. This database tracks, among other things, the annual citation records of articles published in several thousand scientific journals worldwide. Those JFS articles accumulating 50 or more citations were identified and rank-ordered according to the total number of citations. These articles were also evaluated according to the name of first author, the subject category of the article, the country of origin and the pattern of co-authorship. This search strategy located 46 articles cited between 50 and 292 times since they first appeared in print. The most highly cited paper by far was by Kasai, Nakamura and White (USA and Japan) concerning DNA profiling and the application of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in forensic science. Some forensic scientists appeared as first author on two to three highly cited articles, namely Wetli (USA), Budowle (USA) and Comey (USA). When the highly cited articles were sub-divided into subject category, 15 were identified as coming from toxicology, closely followed by criminalistics (14 articles), pathology (nine articles), physical anthropology (five articles), forensic psychiatry (two articles) and one from odontology. The number of co-authors on these highly cited articles ranged from one to nine and the names of some investigators appeared on as many as four highly cited papers. The vast majority of papers originated from US laboratories although five came from Japan, two each from Sweden and Canada and there was also a joint USA-Swiss collaboration. The Thompson ISI citation databases provide unique tools for tracking citations to individual articles and impact and citation records of scholarly journals.
法医学是一个多学科领域，涵盖了纯科学、应用科学和生物医学科学的许多分支。撰写并发表研究结果有助于提升研究者以及开展相关工作的实验室的声誉。一篇文章在其他文章的参考文献列表中被引用的次数通常被视为卓越的标志。事实上，引文分析已广泛应用于对个体科学家、大学院系乃至整个国家的研究评估。本文关注的是1956年至2005年间发表在《法医学杂志》（JFS）上被引用次数最多的论文。这些论文是借助科学网（Web-of-Science）识别出来的，科学网是科学引文索引的在线版本，由总部位于美国费城的汤姆森科学信息研究所（Thomson ISI）制作。该数据库除其他内容外，还追踪全球数千种科学期刊上发表文章的年度被引记录。那些被引用50次或以上的JFS文章被识别出来，并根据被引总数进行排序。这些文章还根据第一作者姓名、文章主题类别、来源国以及共同作者模式进行了评估。这种检索策略找出了46篇自首次发表以来被引用次数在50至292次之间的文章。迄今为止被引用次数最多的论文是由Kasai、Nakamura和White（美国和日本）撰写的，内容涉及DNA分型以及聚合酶链反应（PCR）在法医学中的应用。一些法医科学家作为第一作者出现在两篇至三篇被高度引用的文章中，分别是Wetli（美国）、Budowle（美国）和Comey（美国）。当将这些被高度引用的文章细分为主题类别时，有15篇被认定来自毒理学领域，紧随其后的是刑事科学（14篇文章）、病理学（9篇文章）、体质人类学（5篇文章）、法医精神病学（2篇文章）以及1篇来自牙科学领域。这些被高度引用文章的共同作者数量从1人到9人不等，一些研究者的名字出现在多达4篇被高度引用的论文中。绝大多数论文源自美国实验室，不过有5篇来自日本，瑞典和加拿大各有2篇，还有一篇是美国和瑞士的合作成果。汤姆森ISI引文数据库为追踪个别文章的引用情况以及学术期刊的影响力和被引记录提供了独特的工具。
