The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
Respirology. 2013 Jan;18(1):71-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2012.02262.x.
Identifying citation classics in the field is one of the key methodologies used to conduct a systematic evaluation of research performance. The objective of this study was to determine the most frequently cited articles published in journals that are placed under the 'respiratory system' subject category (Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Journal Citation Reports) and to compare them with the most frequently cited respiratory-related articles published in any journal, regardless of subject category. The authors utilized the ISI Journal Citation Reports: Science Edition 2010 database in April 2012 to determine the most frequently cited articles by respiratory system subject category and by respiratory-related keywords. The top 50 most-cited articles were identified in each category and evaluated according to various characteristics. The majority of these papers originated from the United States. The median numbers of citations for the top 50 cited articles stratified by respiratory system subject category and respiratory-related keywords were 841.5 and 2701, respectively. Half of the top 50 cited articles identified by respiratory-related keywords were published in general medical or basic science journals, whereas only three out of these were published in journals under the respiratory system subject category in ISI Journal Citation Reports. In summary, respiratory-related articles published in general medical or science journals attracted more citations than those published in the specific respiratory journals.
确定该领域的引文经典是对研究绩效进行系统评估的关键方法之一。本研究的目的是确定发表在“呼吸系统”学科（科学信息研究所（ISI）期刊引文报告）期刊上的被引用最多的文章，并将其与任何期刊上发表的被引用最多的呼吸相关文章进行比较，而不论其学科类别如何。作者于 2012 年 4 月利用 ISI 期刊引文报告：科学版 2010 数据库确定了按呼吸系统学科和呼吸相关关键词分类的被引用最多的文章。在每个类别中确定了前 50 篇被引用最多的文章，并根据各种特征进行了评估。这些论文大多来自美国。按呼吸系统学科和呼吸相关关键词分类的前 50 篇被引文章的中位数被引次数分别为 841.5 和 2701。按呼吸相关关键词确定的前 50 篇被引文章中有一半发表在普通医学或基础科学期刊上，而这些期刊中只有 3 种是 ISI 期刊引文报告中的呼吸系统学科期刊。总之，发表在普通医学或科学期刊上的与呼吸相关的文章比发表在特定的呼吸期刊上的文章获得了更多的引用。
