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What determines the citation frequency of ecological papers?
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The Dilemma of Plants: To Grow or Defend
Herms, D. A., & Mattson, W. J. (1992) · The Quarterly Review of Biology · doi:10.1086/417659 · Cited by 4,262
Garfield, E. (1972) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.178.4060.471 · Cited by 2,788 · cited 1×
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BackgroundCarbon/Nutrient Balance of Boreal Plants in Relation to Vertebrate Herbivory
Bryant, J. P., Chapin, F. S., & Klein, D. R. (1983) · Oikos · doi:10.2307/3544308 · Cited by 2,497
The scientific impact of nations
King, D. A. (2004) · Nature · doi:10.1038/430311a · Cited by 1,245
The Plant Vigor Hypothesis and Herbivore Attack
Price, P. W. (1991) · Oikos · doi:10.2307/3545270 · Cited by 1,170
White, T. C. R. (1984) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/bf00379790 · Cited by 1,081
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Garfield, E. (1979) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02019306 · Cited by 907
Peters, R. H. (1991) · Cited by 864
Nigel Gilbert, G. (1977) · Social Studies of Science · doi:10.1177/030631277700700112 · Cited by 691
Callaham, M. (2002) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.287.21.2847 · Cited by 644
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Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis
Nakagawa, S., & Santos, E. S. A. (2012) · Evolutionary Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10682-012-9555-5 · Cited by 1,032
Factors Affecting Number of Citations: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature
Tahamtan, I., Safipour Afshar, A., & Ahamdzadeh, K. (2016) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-016-1889-2 · Cited by 912
Do Pressures to Publish Increase Scientists' Bias? An Empirical Support from US States Data
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Geographical and taxonomic biases in invasion ecology
Pyšek, P., Richardson, D. M., Pergl, J., Jarošík, V., Sixtová, Z., & Weber, E. (2008) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.02.002 · Cited by 818
Metadata
- Authors
- LEIMU, R., & KORICHEVA, J.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-01
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 28-32
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2163507046
- Cited by
- 367
- References
- 46
- FWCI
- 11.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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Data sources
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Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
