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. 2018 Feb 21;13(2):e0193148. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193148

Table 4. The most influential articles in the co-citation networks (Scopus data).

1 Merton, R.K. (1973), The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
2 Zuckerman, H., Merton, R.K. (1971), Patterns of evaluation in science: Institutionalisation, structure and functions of the referee system. Minerva, 9, pp. 66–100
3 Horrobin, D.F. (1990), The philosophical basis of peer review and the suppression of innovation. Journal of the American Medical Association, 263, pp. 1438–1441
4 Bornmann, L. (2011), Scientific peer review. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 45, pp. 199–245
5 Siegelman, S.S. (1991), Assassins and zealots: Variations in peer review. Radiology, 178, pp. 637–642
6 Oppenheim, C. (1997), The correlation between citation counts and the 1992 research assessment exercise ratings for British research in genetics, anatomy and archaeology. Journal of Documentation, 53, pp. 477–487
7 Crane, D. (1967), The gatekeepers of science: Some factors affecting the selection of articles for scientific journals. American Sociologist, 32, pp. 195–201
8 Ingelfinger, F.J. (1974), Peer review in biomedical publication. Am J Med, 56, pp. 686–692
9 Peters, D.P., Ceci, S.J. (1982), Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5, pp. 187–255
10 Cole, S., Cole, J.R., Simon, G.A. (1981), Chance and consensus in peer review. Science, 214, pp. 881–886
11 Cronin, B., McKenzie, G. (1992), The trajectory of rejection. Journal of Documentation, 48 (3), pp. 310–317
12 Starbuck, W.H. 2003), Turning lemons into lemonade: Where is the value in peer reviews? Journal of Management Inquiry, 12, pp. 344–351
13 Wenneras, C., Wold, A. (1997), Nepotism and sexism in peer-review. Nature, 387, pp. 341–343
14 Lawrence, P.A. (2003), The politics of publication. Nature, 422, pp. 259–261
15 Travis, G.D.L., Collins, H.M. (1991), New light on old boys: Cognitive and institutional particularism in the peer review system. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 16 (3), pp. 322–341
16 Burnham, J.C. (1990), The evolution of editorial peer review. JAMA, 263, pp. 1323–1329
17 Van Raan, A.F.J. (2006), Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups. Scientometrics, 67 (3), pp. 491–502
18 Aksnes, D.W., Taxt, R.E. (2004), Peer reviews and bibliometric indicators: A comparative study at a Norwegian university. Research Evaluation, 13 (1), pp. 33–41
19 Rothwell, P.M., Martyn, C.N. (2000), Reproducibility of peer review in clinical neuroscience: Is agreement between reviewers any greater than would be expected by chance alone? Brain, 123, pp. 1964–1969
20 Seng, L.B., Willett, P. (1995), The citedness of publications by United Kingdom library schools. Journal of Information Science, 21 (1), pp. 68–71