"Citations are considered a key measure of a paper’s importance, and university and funding administrators often take them into account when deciding whether to give a researcher tenure or grants. In their analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sociologist Mathias Nielsen at the University of Copenhagen and bibliometrician Jens Peter Andersen at Aarhus University in Denmark assessed peer-reviewed papers across 118 scientific disciplines in the international Web of Science database.
This allowed the team to identify a ‘citation elite’ — the top 1% most-cited authors — and see how many citations each member of this group received in a given year. Between 2000 and 2015, the proportion of citations that went to this elite grew from 14% to 21%.
Nielsen and Andersen also found a decrease in the share of citations given to papers authored in the United States, and an increase in those given to papers authored in Western Europe and Australasia. The highest concentrations of ‘citation elite’ researchers were in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Belgium.
The authors note that their data set probably includes some highly cited authors whose impact has been generated through extreme self-citation, citation ‘farms’ and ghost authorship.
Nielsen points to a 2019 paper that found that after a scientific luminary dies, new authors and new ideas begin to enter the field more easily." [1]
Thus, cooperation is the most valuable when we work with some scientists in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Belgium, where the researchers whose work is now most valued are working, so in case of success, it is easiest to gather a large group of influential acquaintances.
1. Nature 591, 333-334 (2021)
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