Evolution of number of citations per article in Materials Science: possible causes and effect on the impact factor of journals

« (…) In this work we observe this positive correlation between the increase in the number of references per article and the overall increase in JIF but, in our analysis, a kink point is observed in consistency with the appearance of online databases, particularly those free available in 2004. Online databases along with the widespread of open access publishing option made the research content easily available to the scientific community contributing to an increasing trend (without apparent saturation) in the number of articles used to contextualize the new scientific contributions. (…) »

source > link.springer.com, Ariza-Guerrero, A.M., Blázquez, J.S. Evolution of number of citations per article in Materials Science: possible causes and effect on the impact factor of journals. Scientometrics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04863-7

• Mots-clés : 
• Bibliométrie,
• Citation,
• Facteur d'impact,
• Materials Science