It was only recently that the Scholar Metrics for 2017 have been published. These metrics cover science articles and papers published between 2012 and 2016 and include citations from all the articles indexed by Google Scholar as of last month (June 2017). As per Anurag Acharya:
"Scholar Metrics include journal articles from websites that follow our inclusion guidelines, selected conference articles in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering and preprints from arXiv and NBER. Publications with fewer than 100 articles in 2012-2016, or publications that received no citations over these years are not included." [source]
So, for those familiar with scientific publishing, they may not be surprised by the highest ranking publications of this year. To provide some explanation on h-index and h5-index:
- h-index: author-level metric measuring the productivity and citation impact of the publications of an author
- h5-index: the h-index of the articles/papers published in the last 5 complete years (2012-2016, in this case)
This year's top 5 and their h5-index:
- Nature - 366
- The New England Journal of Medicine - 352
- Science - 320
- The Lancet - 273
- Chemical Society Reviews - 241
The only difference from last year is that Chemical Society Reviews made it to top 5, while Cell left the top 5 (it's #6 with an h5-index of 237).
The most cited papers in Nature have been published in 2012 and 2013. However, a 2015 paper on deep learning by LeCun and colleagues climbs the ranks at a fasted pace:
For those interested, I'd recommend an in-depth exploration of these publications and their papers by going here.
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