Papers on “citation impact”
Research on “citation impact” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “citation impact” appeared in 640 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (488), economics (65) and AI (21).
- 52 of them were published in 2025, against 61 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Nanjing University (20), Xi'an Jiaotong University (8) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Scientometrics (108), Journal of Informetrics (47) and Research Policy (17).
- The most-cited of them is “Bias against novelty in science: A cautionary tale for users of bibliometric indicators” (Research Policy, 2017), with 545 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education and Research | 54 | 53 | 52 | 56 | 54 | 53 | 40 | 48 | 33 | 45 |
| Economics | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 14 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 3 |
| Management | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Finance | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Accounting | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 61 | 66 | 64 | 70 | 65 | 69 | 54 | 68 | 52 | 71 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scientometrics | 108 |
| 2 | Journal of Informetrics | 47 |
| 3 | Research Policy | 17 |
| 4 | Information Processing & Management | 11 |
| 5 | Higher Education | 9 |
| 6 | China Economic Review | 3 |
| 7 | Public Choice | 2 |
| 8 | Annals of Tourism Research | 2 |
| 9 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2 |
| 10 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 2 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nanjing University | 20 |
| 2 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 8 |
| 3 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 7 |
| 4 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 7 |
| 5 | University of Technology Sydney | 6 |
| 6 | Wuhan University | 6 |
| 7 | Dalian University of Technology | 5 |
| 8 | KU Leuven | 5 |
| 9 | Universidade de Vigo | 5 |
| 10 | University of Rome Tor Vergata | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 87 |
| 2 | United States | 41 |
| 3 | Germany | 21 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 18 |
| 5 | Australia | 12 |
| 6 | Spain | 12 |
| 7 | Italy | 12 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 11 |
| 9 | Belgium | 10 |
| 10 | Brazil | 8 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | research collaboration | 24 |
| 2 | research productivity | 24 |
| 3 | research evaluation | 20 |
| 4 | co-authorship | 17 |
| 5 | international research collaboration | 17 |
| 6 | bibliometric indicators | 15 |
| 7 | bibliometric analysis | 14 |
| 8 | interdisciplinary research | 13 |
| 9 | research impact | 11 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 545 | 4.9 | Bias against novelty in science: A cautionary tale for users of bibliometric indicators | Research Policy | 2017-07-20 | Jian Wang, Reinhilde Veugelers, Paula E. Stephan |
| 2 | 293 | 3.6 | ICT as a driver of economic growth: A survey of the literature and directions for future research | Telecommunications Policy | 2020-02-06 | Khuong Minh Vu, Payam Hanafizadeh, Erik Bohlin |
| 3 | 253 | 2.5 | The application of bibliometric analysis: disciplinary and user aspects | Scientometrics | 2018-05-04 | Ole Ellegaard |
| 4 | 248 | 2.7 | International research collaboration: Novelty, conventionality, and atypicality in knowledge recombination | Research Policy | 2019-01-18 | Caroline S. Wagner, Travis A. Whetsell, Satyam Mukherjee |
| 5 | 199 | 2.6 | Sample size in bibliometric analysis | Scientometrics | 2020-07-31 | Gordon Rogers, Martin Szomszor, Jonathan R. Adams |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “citation impact”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/citation-impact
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