Review Citation Factors

Guskov A.E.

Kosyakov D.V.

Bagirova A.V.

Blinov P.Y.

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

№ 6 / 2020

страницы: 738-750

Reviews are essential for the sustainable development of research, as evidenced by their higher citation rates compared to other types of publications. The literature on the typification of reviews is analyzed; the role of reviews in the general flow of scientific publications is characterized, including by scientific trends; and hypotheses about factors affecting the citation of scientific publications in general and reviews in particular are accumulated. To confirm the hypotheses and determine the degree of influence of individual factors, a correlation and regression analysis of the selected array of scientific reviews has been carried out. As a result, the influence of ten factors is shown. The most significant of them are the rating of the journal, the age of the article, the bibliography length, the language in which the review is written, and the average Hirsch index of the authors