SML Reference Librarian did a search on April 9, 2010 (click here to see the search strategy) on Web of Science (WoS) & Scopus for the papers written by an AUB author and indexed in these two databases. Then, the search results were sorted by the number of citations each publication got, and the highest 16 documents were selected.
An identical search was repeated for the last ten years (2000 – 2010) and the highest 16 cited AUB papers were selected. Click below to see the most highly cited AUB papers.*
* Please note that these lists, retrieved from Scopus and WoS, include ONLY papers that were written by AUB Authors while they were actually working at AUB, AND provided they have indicated their AUB affiliation address in the published papers.
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I have posted the Blog on “most highly cited AUB papers” last week and have received a number of comments from AUB faculty members, so I thought I would post here more information regarding this issue.
My aim for writing this Blog was to draw attention to AUB papers that got highest citations, so I searched Web of Science (WoS) & Scopus for the 16 most highly cited papers that were written by AUB authors while they were working at AUB (strategy used is here )
This means that the author should indicate his AUB affiliation address on the paper (and should write it correctly!) so as to be retrieved in the search results.
In doing this, I am not claiming these posted lists to be an absolute accurate way to evaluate papers/authors; it has its limitations like many other tools used academically, example Impact Factor: last month I read about an article published in ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ to be very wrong and unscientific! So not all papers written in a highly impact factor journal are of the same high standard . Also not all papers that cite an article necessarily mean that the article has value/impact, it could be cited because they were saying it is a very bad paper, etc…
Moreover, if you look at the four lists I have posted; you find that WoS lists different AUB papers as most highly cited than those obtained from Scopus; and also if you search the whole database (either WoS or Scopus) you get different results than if you search only the last ten years of each database.
Also some Arab authors get missed citations because of their name, especially for names containing El-, Al-, Abou, Abi, or women authors that change their names etc…another fact I have noticed here is that some AUB authors are inconsistent in writing their names! In addition, some databases do not list the affiliations of ALL the authors, so some get lost in the searching…
In summary, there is no ideal indexing/evaluating system, any tool/technique we use is really neither representative nor completely accurate, and the citation ranks are partial indicators of the scholarly impact of papers/authors!
I hope this sheds more light on this issue, and if any faculty member has a comment/criticism I am willing to discuss further.
My humble advice is to write your affiliation address (and do that correctly), be consistent in writing your name and try to publish in an Open Access publication as this improves your chance of being cited…
Note: I have first labeled the post as “most highly cited AUB Authors” and then one of you draw my attention that this was not a very accurate naming, so the title was changed to “most highly cited AUB papers”, many thanks to the commenter!
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