Quick post today because the work week has been crazy.
The scientific journal Nature just released several articles about the Science Citation Index (SCI). The SCI is a measurement of the number of citations (by other articles and research reports) a particular research paper or study receives. This purportedly reflects how important a particular research article is in related scientific fields. Both Thomas Reuters (which owns the SCI) and Google Scholar reported back to Nature on the top 100 most-cited scientific papers of all time. It's quite surprising how many methods and computational papers make the list. A second article discusses how researchers view their own work.
I'm still digesting the articles and what they mean to science and publishing in general, but I wanted to share this with anyone interested. I do find it surprising that the journal Nature only has two papers in the top 50....and the journal Science only gets as high as #63! Take that for what it's worth.
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