Analysis of journal rankings confirms that more cited articles contain more references

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F24%3AA250390P" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/24:A250390P - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61989100:27360/24:10255589 RIV/61989100:27710/24:10255589

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11192-024-05169-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11192-024-05169-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05169-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11192-024-05169-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Analysis of journal rankings confirms that more cited articles contain more references

Original language description

Scientific articles are used to be cited according to various factors, such as their quality, novelty, methodology, etc. There are also other factors which were identified to influence the citation impact of articles, such as the length of the articles, the number of authors, and the number of references etc. The influence of the number of references was analysed in this study. Journals from various research fields, such as Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Psychology, were ranked according to their SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) values into deciles for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2023. The number of references related to one article was calculated for each decile and then correlated against the decile ranking (from 1 to 10). Significant correlation coefficients ranging from -0.880 to -0.982 were obtained. This approach is different from the common approach to analyse the citations and references of the individual articles. The negative slopes of such linear plots demonstrate that the numbers of references are related to the citation impact of journals and, in turn, articles published by them. This is in line with the journal-article-level Matthew effect so that the authors prefer to read the higherranked journals and then cite their articles.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10200 - Computer and information sciences

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SCIENTOMETRICS

ISSN

0138-9130

e-ISSN

1588-2861

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

7153-7160

UT code for WoS article

001328520000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85205597372