- Title
- Citation indexing and highly cited articles in the Australian Veterinary Journal (editorial)
- Creator
- Smith, D. R.
- Relation
- Australian Veterinary Journal Vol. 86, Issue 9, p. 337-339
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-0813.2008.00330.x
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- The concept of tracking scientific manuscripts to see if they were cited in the reference lists of subsequent journal articles was first proposed by Eugene Garfield in 1955. His formula to establish which journals had the highest relative citation rates quickly became known as the impact factor (IF), a number that has now risen to prominence in the academic world of veterinary science,as elsewhere. Although the IF focuses only on those citations obtained during the previous 2-year period, the idea of counting the total number of citations received by a particular article also attracted the attention of Garfield, who first began undertaking such investigations in the 1970s. The term ‘citation classics’ was later coined by him to describe specific journal articles that had received an unusually large number of citations. Relatively few studies of citation classics appear to have been conducted in veterinary science, although those that do exist have previously identified avian lymphomatosis, feline leukaemia and neonatal calf diarrhea as topics with potentially high citation rates.
- Subject
- citation classics; impact factor; publishing; veterinary science
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41437
- Identifier
- uon:4794
- Identifier
- ISSN:0005-0423
- Language
- eng
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