Table 2.
Characteristics of source articles in the verification set
| Source article | Publication field | Publication year | Years since publication | Number of citations | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Articles in English | Articles not in English* | Books and book chapters* | Total citations | ||||
| 1 | Medicine, General & Internal | 2004 | 15 | 740 | 62 | 22 | 824 |
| 2 | Medicine, General & Internal | 2012 | 7 | 510 | 39 | 27 | 576 |
| 3 | Surgery, Transplantation | 2009 | 10 | 413 | 16 | 24 | 453 |
| 4 | Surgery, Transplantation | 2006 | 13 | 210 | 9 | 17 | 236 |
| 5 | Peripheral Vascular Disease | 2002 | 17 | 183 | 16 | 15 | 214 |
| 6 | Urology & Nephrology | 2010 | 9 | 181 | 13 | 15 | 209 |
| 7 | Physiology | 1995 | 24 | 162 | 1 | 6 | 169 |
| 8 | Urology & Nephrology | 2007 | 12 | 129 | 16 | 11 | 156 |
| 9 | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | 2003 | 16 | 103 | 12 | 30 | 145 |
| 10 | Urology & Nephrology | 2006 | 13 | 126 | 3 | 14 | 143 |
| 11 | Medical Laboratory Technology | 2005 | 14 | 126 | 7 | 9 | 142 |
| 12 | Obstetrics & Gynecology | 2007 | 12 | 114 | 3 | 13 | 130 |
| 13 | Urology & Nephrology | 2008 | 11 | 99 | 21 | 2 | 122 |
| Total | 3,096 | 218 | 205 | 3,519 | |||
*
These categories were excluded from subsequent analyses