There's also a glossary, for those who aren't familiar with terms like "Skadden Arps," another major law firm; "cites," citations identifying court decisions and other legal materials; and "Does," meaning "multiple currently unidentified ('John Doe') parties to a lawsuit".
Hence, if the purpose of a literature search is to find a dozen of the most recent references, then 'citation surfing', that is, tracking only the most cited citations would be more reasonable than a comprehensive citation analysis.
In particular, in a review of 39 highly cited (citation index > 1,000) randomized controlled trials that reported an original claim of an effect (Ioannidis 2005), only the results of 19 trials were replicated by subsequent studies.
When using the WoS for citation analysis it was noted that 84 (76%) of the monographs had one or more citations from cited reference variants that were not linked to the Times Cited number on the Full Record page, and were only detected when the Cited Reference Search was used.
Table 1 Top 30 most cited works Reference Citations Title About Schumpeter (1934) 235 The theory of economic development Classical analysis of the capitalist society emphasizing the role of the entrepreneur as an innovator.
As Scopus does not have an equivalent Cited Reference Search function it was not possible to determine the unlinked citations due to cited reference variants in this database.
Patient-reported shoulder pain intensity was the most frequently cited (200 citations) followed by active range of motion (170 citations), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI/MRA) (125 citations), muscle strength (98 citations), X-ray (81 citations), passive range of motion (61 citations) and ultrasonography (57 citations).
In this analysis, publications from TW were most frequently cited (8725 citations, 1747 articles), followed by those from HK (5418 citations, 700 articles) and ML (5215 citations, 1680 articles).
Articles investigating the role of depression in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease were sought through two methods: a) PubMed, and b) citation tracking where Science Citation Index was searched for all articles which cited ("forward citation tracking") or were cited by ("backward citation tracking") any of the articles in an index review.
Schumpeter's (1934) seminal work – The theory of economic development – with his thoughts on the role of the entrepreneur in driving innovations is the most cited (235 citations).
Once such an index review on the topic in question is identified, Science Citation Index can be used to identify all the articles that cited ("forward citation tracking") or were cited by ("backward citation tracking") the articles in the index review.
