U ncited research has received much attention due to its extent and impact on scholarship. It has been claimed that articles without a single citation do not have any constructive… Click to show full abstract
U ncited research has received much attention due to its extent and impact on scholarship. It has been claimed that articles without a single citation do not have any constructive effect on future research and might be a waste of resources. Thus, the percent of uncited articles in any given journal could be considered as a measure of abundance of lowimpact articles within that journal, very much like the impact factor (IF) that serves as an index of average impact of all published papers in a given journal.
               
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