Twenty articles for twenty years

Gordon Waddington

doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2017.11.002

Twenty articles for twenty years

Gordon Waddington

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How to decide on the twenty most influential articles in the first 20 years of the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport? Do we rely on the subjective assessment of our eminent Editorial Board members or do we rely solely on the metadata for citations and download statistics? Does number of downloads relate to clinical interest and relevance of an article and are citation rates more representative of the scientific value of an article? For a Journal which aims to meet the needs of a practice based and a research readership both of these factors are important. This is further complicated in that download numbers and citation rates of articles don’t necessarily correlate with some authors suggesting a relationship exists between downloads and citation rates,1, 2, 3 while others report no relationship.4

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1132-1132
Number of pages	1
Journal	Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Volume	20
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2017.11.002
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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