You might think of bibliometrics as something that happens to scientific articles after they’re published. However, in new and innovative fields like ionomics, bibliometrics can also help shape them.

Contemporary Citation Classics: Winkel-Shirley, B (2001) Flavonoid biosynthesis. A colorful model for genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, and biotechnology. Plant Physiology 126, 485-493. [1,839 citations] A while ago, I compiled a list of Contemporary Citation Classics in Plant Sciences. My intention was not just to identify key papers in Plant Sciences but also to discover something […]

Philip White talks to Martin Broadley about how they wrote some highly-cited reviews as Early Career Researchers.

Philip White talks to Giles Johnson and finds out that what some people call a waste of time, other people call a citation classic.

Biofortification is a growing field of research. Philip White dives into the bibliometrics to see what nutrients and what crops are of particular interest at the moment.

Philip White writes: Recently, I compiled a list of contemporary Citation Classics in Plant Sciences. My intention was not just to identify key papers in Plant Sciences but also to discover something about the historical context of these papers, the authors’ motivations, and why the authors believed their paper had become so well cited. So, […]

Philip White takes a peek into the future. What papers are likely to become 'citation classics'?

Previously I described the compilation of a list of 517 contemporary Citation Classics in Plant Sciences (1992-2017) and tempted the reader with the prospect of revealing more about the authors, journals and organisations represented in these papers. So, as promised, here is some detail: The list contained authors working in forty-six countries (Figure 1), representing […]

Philip White asks what are the classic papers in plant sciences, and highlights a method that allows you to produce your own lists for your field or sub-field.