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Cardiovascular Research 2002 56(2):175-177; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00651-X
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Copyright © 2002, European Society of Cardiology

Productivity in science: more more and more?

Tobias Opthofa,* and Ruben Coronelb,c

aDepartment of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center, P.O. Box 85060, 3508 AB Utrecht, The Netherlands
bDepartment of Cardiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
cDepartment of Experimental and Molecular Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

t.opthof@med.uu.nl

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +31-30-253-8900; fax: +31-30-253-9036.

Received 23 August 2002; accepted 29 August 2002

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   1. Introduction
 
During the first 60–70 years of the last century it was more or less possible to read everything that was published worldwide in whatever scientific speciality. This is no longer true. De Jong and Schaper [1] published a paper on the number of publications in clinical cardiovascular science including the citation of those papers over a 12-year period from 1981 to 1992. Of the 137 000 papers published during that period 46% remained uncited with a remarkable geographical variability from 31% for Norway to 69% for Japan. It should be realized that even a single citation by the authors themselves (self-citation) during such a long period would classify a paper in the cited category. Low citation is not . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   2. More journals—more papers—more references
 

   3. Productivity of individual scientists
 

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