Impact Factor
Year: 2012
Type: editorial
Abstract: How likely is it that a scientific article will still be being cited half a century after it first appeared? A working group around John P. Ioannidis of Stanford University has investigated the fate of more than 5000 contributions in 27 medical journals from the year 1959 (1), and found that no fewer than one in 23 of these texts received a citation in 2009. Classic status, however—at least five citations—was attained by only one in 400 publications; examples given in the study are the descriptions of Prinzmetal’s angina or Down syndrome.
Author: Christopher Baethge
Language: German
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2395817536