Unlocking Faster Knowledge Innovation: Study Reveals Key Factors in Journal Citations
The article explores how long it takes for journal articles to be cited and how long it takes for those citations to happen. They looked at data from a specific journal and found that both time lags have a certain pattern. The time it takes for an article to be cited is influenced by factors like university level, collaboration, and funding. They also discovered that for English papers, the time it takes to cite an article is shorter when the article was cited sooner.