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To examine whether the prestige of a journal, measured by its impact factor, influences the numbers of citations obtained by published articles, independently of their scientific merit.
The number of documents or the number of citations obtained by an institution are used frequently in international ranking of institutions.
From almost 11,000 citations obtained, only 49 papers fulfilled the criteria of having data of all independent variables and at least one dependent datum for control (untreated) groups.
We created a workflow based on a database holding 365 million of relations between these terms (proteins, metabolites, organisms and tissues) and PubMed citations, obtained from the whole PubMed collection up to September 2009.
For this, Vinkler [28] recommends use of a worldwide reference standard: "Relative Subfield Citedness (Rw) (where W refers to 'world') relates the number of citations obtained by the set of papers evaluated to the number of citations received by a same number of papers published in journals dedicated to the respective discipline, field or subfield" [p. 164, see also 29].
Vinkler [50], [51] recommends a worldwide reference standard for the bibliometric evaluation of research groups: "Relative Subfield Citedness (Rw) (where W refers to 'world') relates the number of citations obtained by the set of papers evaluated to the number of citations received by a same number of papers.dedicated to the respective discipline, field or subfield" (p. 164) [52].
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A natural measure is the time necessary for a paper to reach the geometric mean of its final citations, obtaining (supplementary materials S2.2) (7)Hence, impact time is mainly determined by the immediacy parameter μi and is independent of fitness λi or decay σi.
A total of 2036 citations were obtained from PubMed and 980 non-duplicated citations using EMBASE, yielding a total of 3016 citations that were all screened by independent pairs of reviewers.
Another 31 citations were obtained by screening reference lists of relevant publications.
We browsed the title and abstract of all related manuscripts, manually examined reference lists for additional citations and obtained the full text of all potentially relevant articles.
After removal of duplicates and irrelevant citations on the basis of title and/or abstract the full texts of 32 citations were obtained for further scrutiny.
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