“The Rise and Fall of Uncitedness”, 1997 (; backlinks; similar):
Large-scale uncitedness refers to the remarkable proportion of articles that do not receive a single citation within 5 years of publication. Equally remarkable is the brief and troubled history of this area of inquiry, which was prone to miscalculation, misinterpretation, and politicization.
This article reassesses large-scale uncitedness as both a general phenomenon in the scholarly communication system and a case study of library and information science, where its rate is 72%.
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