When choosing their core journals, scientists consult the citation statistics. Their appeal lies with the ease of ranking journals, papers or researchers in a system of simple indices that count ...

In scientific writing, we don't cite references by using footnotes. Instead, citations including author's last name and year are inserted directly into the text, like this (Kusnick, 1997). If there is ...

Many of these precocious authors publish what the analysis calls an ‘extreme’ number of papers — an average of more than one per week. The analysis also found that these authors often cite ...