Methodological advances attract top cites
Articles describing advances or updates in experimental methodology have long been thought to attract higher numbers of citations than other research contributions, but recent research has failed to confirm this (1).
Nevertheless, the 10 most cited journal articles in molecular life sciences solely comprised papers reporting some of the most important methodological advances of the last 40 years. Articles in journals in the fields ‘Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology’, ‘Immunology and Microbiology’ and ‘Multidisciplinary’ were sorted by citations received to date (see Table 1).
(1) Aksnes, D.W. (2006) “Citation rates and perceptions of scientific contribution”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 169–185. |
