Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and Example
Figure 4
Citations increase with journal quality and time since publication.
To confirm that extracted citation counts, journal rank, and publication date conformed to expected patterns, citation counts were fit as a function of publication date controlling for journal quality (SJR; upper panel) and citation counts were fit as a function of journal quality (lower panel). No differences were seen between papers that were “known” (included) and “unknown” (excluded).