Citation trends and citation classics at Occupational Medicine

Abstract

Citations have been described as the ‘currency’ of modern science [1], and the longitudinal analysis of citation trends is now becoming increasingly popular in many journals. There are four main indicators which are commonly used: ‘citation counts’, ‘cited half lives’, ‘immediacy indexes’ and the ‘impact factor’. The term citation counts can be divided into two parts for the purposes of this editorial, with ‘citable items’ referring to the number of substantial articles published by the journal each year. Definition of the term ‘substantial’ is ascertained by the license holder, Thomson Scientific, formerly known as the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). It generally includes original articles, reviews and short communications, but does not usually count editorials, letters to the editor and so on. Further details on the original criteria used for article selection are published elsewhere [2]. ‘Citations received’ indicates the number of times that articles from this journal were subsequently cited by any journal in a given year.

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No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 10 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.