Citation analysis has been routinely used for several decades to help assess patent quality and determine how patents impact the competition and affect the world at large. A greater number of forward ...

What makes good science? And how do Nature’seditors select papers to publish? The answers to both questions are many and varied. But they have one thing in common: neither is necessarily reflected in ...

Assessing the importance and quality of research is a complex and challenging task that is traditionally performed by a panel of experts familiar with the research field. Although the expert-based ...

Objective To quantify the time lag between biomedical articles and the studies they describe as “recent,” a term widely used to imply timeliness despite rarely reflecting the actual age of the cited ...