Impact of Article Page Count and Number of Authors on Citations in Disability Related Fields: A Systematic Review Article
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Background:
Citation metrics and total publications in a field has become the gold
standard for rating researchers and viability of a field. Hence,
stimulating demand for citation has led to a search for useful
strategies to improve performance metric index. Meanwhile, title,
abstract and morphologic qualities of the articles attract researchers
to scientific publications. Yet, there is relatively little
understanding of the citation trend in disability related fields. We
aimed to provide an insight into the factors associated with citation
increase in this field. Additionally, we tried to know at what page
number an article might appear attractive to disability researchers
needs. Thus, our focus is placed on the article page count and the
number of authors contributing to the fields per article.
Methods:
To this end, we evaluated the quantitative characteristics of top cited
articles in the fields with a total citation (³50) in the Web of
Science (WoS) database. Using one-way independent ANOVA, data extracted
spanning a period of 1980-2015 were analyzed, while the non-parametric
data analysis uses Kruskal-Walis test.
Results:
Articles with 11 to 20 pages attract more citations followed by those
within the range of zero to 10. Articles with upward 21 pages are the
least cited. Surprisingly, articles with more than two authors are
significantly (P<0.05) less cited and the citation decreases as the
number of authors increased.
Conclusion:
Collaborative studies enjoy wider utilization and more citation, yet
discounted merit of additional pages and limited collaborative research
in disability field is revealed in this study.
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