Social media and predictors of traditional citations: insights from the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery

Abstract

In 1971, a patient with suspected left frontal lobe tumor underwent the first clinical CT scan. The prototype scanner was developed by Godfrey Hounsfield.1 Almost 10 years earlier, Allan Cormack had independently demonstrated that multiple measurements of radiographic attenuation could be reconstructed to form an image of the target tissue. While both Hounsfield and Cormack shared the Nobel Prize Physics and Medicine in 1979 for the discovery of the CT scan, Hounsfield and Cormack never met and furthermore Hounsfield was apparently not familiar with Cormack’s work.1 It is tempting to speculate whether earlier knowledge sharing and collaboration between the scientists would have accelerated the development of this revolutionary technology. Timely diffusion of medical knowledge has dramatically improved over recent decades and likely itself contributes to the pace at which advances are being made. Estimates suggest that the doubling time of medical knowledge in …

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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 — 5 citations exist upstream.

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