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THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIGHLY CITED AND UNCITED PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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Afshin Amini   , Hojjat Derakhshanfar * , Ali Arhami Dolatabadi , Hamid Kariman |
| Assistant Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department, Mofid Children Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran |
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Abstract: (9389 Views) |
| Objective: Substance abuse has a significant impact on global health and socioeconomic condition in most countries. This study aim was to identify and compare characteristics of the highly cited publications with those of uncited publications in the field of drug abuse and misuse.
Methods: All of publications and citations related to substance abuse in the year 2007 and also the trend of publications related to substance abuse from 2000-2009 was studied, through the ISI web of science were recorded. One percent of highly cited publications with equal number of un-cited publications were compared. The number of authors, journals, impact factor of the journals, citation rates, number of references, number of pages, document type, language, first author’s affiliation, first author’s country, publisher, and subject category, type of drug, first author’s gender and study design and type were compared.
Results: There was 60.4% increase in the number of publications from 2000 to 2009. Among highly cited publications, the average number of citation was 84.9 (+40.0). 75.5% of highly cited publications discussed the mechanism of action or pathways that resulted in drug addiction while among uncited publications, epidemiological and population based studies were the approach of 92.8% of the articles. Neuroscience and experimental studies were the main subject area and type of study in highly cited articles.
Conclusion: This study showed that study design, subject area and topic influence citation rate. Also impact factor of the publishing journals, language of publications and geographic distribution of publications, number of authors, type of articles and number of references could influence the citation rate. |
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| Keywords: Substance abuse, highly cited, Uncited |
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Type of Study: Review |
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