A rapid rise in PubMed citations on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) occurred after 2000, but the relationship of trends in citation to epidemiologic trends for infectious disease is not known.
First, usage log data is generally considered a more "rapid" indicator of scientific impact than citation data, since usage log data is nearly immediately affected by changes in scientific habits and interests whereas citation data is subject to extensive publication delays.
In this paper, we have presented a new method for the rapid and automated estimation of publication-citation records.
Additionally, the volume of recent citations suggests a relatively rapid increase in the use and dissemination of this tool, which is consistent with the anecdotal experience of working group members.
The citation decay is even more rapid in other scientific fields, such as molecular genetics, while some fields with slower turn-over (e.g. mathematics) may have more papers that continue to be cited for many years.
The rapid development of the internet and electronic citation databases, such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, CiteSeer and others, has made it easier to count citations of individual articles.
Authors suggested that this black market may have contributed to China's rapid growth in the number of Science Citation Index (SCI) articles, with China's contribution now the second largest, after the USA.
A total of 451 citations were identified in this rapid and systematic review of the literature.
Citation: "Hf-W-Th evidence for rapid growth of Mars and its status as a planetary embryo," by N. Dauphas and A. Pourmand, Nature, May 26 , 2011
The Citation Immediacy Index is intended to be a "rapid" indicator of scientific impact since it is based on same-year citations.
Surprisingly, most usage-based measures would then fall in the "Rapid, "Prestige" quadrant, approximated in this aspect only by two Citation Betweenness Centrality measures.
