Highly cited old papers and the reasons why they continue to be cited. Part II., The 1953 Watson and Crick article on the structure of DNA
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In the second study, 13 percent of the sample actively used Watson and Crick's (1953) information (4 percent), methods (5 percent), or theory (4 percent), compared to 28 percent in the first study.
“Whereas in the second study only 13 percent of the sample were actively using Watson and Crick's (1953) information (4 percent), methods (5 percent), or theory (4 percent), a greater proportion (28 percent) of the citations in the first study were made for this purpose (information ¼ 1 percent, methods ¼ 11 percent, theory ¼ 16 percent).”
From What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior (2008) · cites this paper as Ahmed et al. (2004)
Only two articles (2 percent) in the sample criticized Watson and Crick's (1953) work.
“Ahmed et al. (2004) found only two articles (2 percent) criticizing Watson and Crick's (1953) work.”
From What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior (2008) · cites this paper as Ahmed et al. (2004)
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Content Analysis of References: Adjunct or Alternative to Citation Counting?
Chubin, D. E., & Moitra, S. D. (1975) · Social Studies of Science · doi:10.1177/030631277500500403 · Cited by 357 · see citing works
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What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior
Bornmann, L., & Daniel, H. (2008) · Journal of Documentation · doi:10.1108/00220410810844150 · Cited by 1,607 · see citing works
Structural Scaffolds for Citation Intent Classification in Scientific Publications
Cohan, A., Ammar, W., van Zuylen, M., & Cady, F. (2019) · Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · doi:10.18653/v1/n19-1361 · Cited by 214 · see citing works
- Authors
- Ahmed, T., Johnson, B., Oppenheim, C., & Peck, C.
- Affiliations
- Loughborough University (GB)
- Venue
- Scientometrics
- Published
- 2004-10
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 147-156
- ISSN
- 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
- 1588-2861
- OpenAlex
- W2057817101
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 3.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Scientometrics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Francis Crick Institute
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Keywords
- highly cited papers, citation analysis, Watson and Crick, DNA double helix, bibliographic errors, history of molecular biology
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