Lone Geniuses or One among Many? An Explorative Study of Contemporary Highly Cited Researchers
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Article Category: Research Paper
Published Online: Mar 08, 2021
Page range: 41 - 66
Received: Dec 11, 2020
Accepted: Feb 19, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2021-0019
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Overview of the journal profile of the HCRs and the 10 journals in which they publish most frequently: number of publications, highly cited articles, and other articles.
| Highly cited articles | Other articles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Journal | Number of publications | Journal | Number of publications |
| Nature | 250 | PLoS One | 518 |
| Science | 157 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 297 |
| Nature Genetics | 135 | Nature Genetics | 234 |
| Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the USA | 99 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 207 |
| European Heart Journal | 80 | European Heart Journal | 206 |
| New England Journal of Medicine | 65 | International Journal of Cancer | 201 |
| Plos One | 56 | Astrophysical Journal | 181 |
| Lancet | 52 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 146 |
| Nucleic Acids Research | 49 | IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics | 142 |
| Nature Communications | 47 | Plos Genetics | 135 |
Overview of sample of HCRs analyzed by field and country.
| Field | Denmark | Netherlands | Norway | Sweden | UK | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Biology & Biochemistry | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||
| Chemistry | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Clinical Medicine | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| Computer Science | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Cross-Field | 14 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 56 |
| Economics & Business | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Engineering | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Environment/Ecology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Geosciences | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| Materials Science | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Mathematics | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Microbiology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Molecular Biology & Genetics | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
| Neuroscience & Behaviour | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Pharmacology & Toxicology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Physics | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Plant & Animal Science | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| Psychiatry/Psychology | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Social Sciences, general | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Space Science | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Total | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 150 |