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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Top 10 Cited References in the 80's
- Message-ID: <Nov.19.15.43.08.1992.6763@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:43:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.193350.7926@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- > It is interesting to speculate that without the discovery of high-Tc
- > superconductivity, all of the 'Top 10' would be biology. Of course,
- > judging by the inhuman publication rates of certain people in the
- > medical community, at the level of several hundred publications a year
- > some could be wholly self referential (humor inferred).
-
- The top 10 are generally biologists; or medical researchers (who tend
- to be worse about spewing out enormous numbers of self-citing papers,
- it seems.) A year or so ago a different survey of highly cited papers,
- including theory, had nine biology researchers and Ed Witten as the Top
- 10 citees. Witten's appearance was noted as unusual since they are
- almost always biologists.
-
- Someone at the Institute for Scientific Information (publishers of SCI)
- once told me that the annual appearance of the Top 10 list is awaited
- nervously by the people who tend to be on it and that some take falling
- off it very hard (concomitant loss of prestige, money,etc). Whatever one
- may say about the pressure to publish and reliance on stupid counts of
- total papers published in physics, it's worse in medical research.
-
- - Ben
- -----[new quote]
- "When J. Edgar Hoover gives you a requirement for complete
- [telecommunications] surveillance of all Quakers in the United States,
- when Richard M. Nixon is a Quaker and he's the President of the United
- States, it gets pretty funny." - Frank Raven, retired NSA official
-