Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

John P A Ioannidis; Kevin W Boyack; Jeroen Baas

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918

Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

PLoS Biol. 2020 Oct 16;18(10):e3000918. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Authors

John P A Ioannidis^{1

2

3

4}, Kevin W Boyack⁵, Jeroen Baas⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
² Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
³ Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
⁴ Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
⁵ SciTech Strategies, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.
⁶ Research Intelligence, Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Abstract

This Formal Comment presents an update to citation databases of top-cited scientists across all scientific fields, including more granular information on diverse indicators.

MeSH terms

Authorship*
Bibliometrics*
Databases as Topic*
Databases, Factual*
Science*

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.