What a difference a colon makes: how superficial factors influence subsequent citation

Getting cited is important for scholars and for the institutions in which they work. Whether because of the influence on scientific progress or because of the reputation of scholars and their institutions, understanding why some articles are cited more often than others can help scholars write more...

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Published in:	Scientometrics 2014-03, Vol.98 (3), p.1601-1615
Main Authors:	van Wesel, Maarten, Wyatt, Sally, ten Haaf, Jeroen
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Analysis Bibliometrics. Scientometrics Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation Citations Computer Science Downloading Exact sciences and technology Information and communication sciences Information science. Documentation Information Storage and Retrieval Library and information science. General aspects Library Science Sciences and techniques of general use
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Summary:	Getting cited is important for scholars and for the institutions in which they work. Whether because of the influence on scientific progress or because of the reputation of scholars and their institutions, understanding why some articles are cited more often than others can help scholars write more highly cited articles. This article builds upon earlier literature which identifies seemingly superficial factors that influence the citation rate of articles. Three Journal Citation Report subject categories are analyzed to identify these effects. From a set of 2,016 articles in Sociology, 6,957 articles in General & Internal Medicine, and 23,676 articles in Applied Physics, metadata from the Web of Knowledge was downloaded in addition to PDFs of the full articles. In this article number of words in title, number of pages, number of references, sentences in the abstract, sentences in the paper, number of authors and readability were identified as factors for analysis.
ISSN:	0138-9130 1588-2861