Dear Dr. Kabita Shah ,

I suggest you to have a look at the following paper/book:

- Factors affecting number of citations: a comprehensive review of the literature

Tahamtan, I., Safipour Afshar, A. & Ahamdzadeh, K.

Scientometrics 107, 1195–1225 (2016)

Available, as abstract, at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-016-1889-2

- How to Write a Good Scientific Paper

By Chris A. Mack (2018) - ISBN 9781510619135

Available at: https://spie.org/samples/9781510619142.pdf

Best regards, Pierluigi Traverso.

Dear Dr. Kabita Shah ,

I suggest you to have a look at the following paper/book:

- Factors affecting number of citations: a comprehensive review of the literature

Tahamtan, I., Safipour Afshar, A. & Ahamdzadeh, K.

Scientometrics 107, 1195–1225 (2016)

Available, as abstract, at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-016-1889-2

- How to Write a Good Scientific Paper

By Chris A. Mack (2018) - ISBN 9781510619135

Available at: https://spie.org/samples/9781510619142.pdf

Best regards, Pierluigi Traverso.

Kabita Shah , the first article provided by Pierluigi Traverso is interesting, I will be checking it as well.

Hi;

It is possible to increase the impact of your publications via Open Access. Open Access ensures visibility and free access to the public.

Please see the link below for details:

https://fr.slideshare.net/blogusoperandi/augmenter-limpact-de-vos-publications-via-lopen-access With my best regards

Dear Kabita Shah ,

Citation is important for a research article but it is not the single parameter for your impact. The originality, relevance and the contribution of a research work for the society should not be judged based on the citations only.

If you have published a research article on an issue which can be performed by a large scientific community with easier access, such work will get more citation. Same rule applies if you are the pioneer in a novel issue that can be comfortably followed by hundreds of others. However, if a research work is highly important for the society or scientific community but requires advanced equipment, such work will get relatively less citations because less number of people will be able to afford the equipment. In such case, it will be unfair to categorize the work based on citation only. Hence, we should appraise the overall article metrics !

Citation is very important in research paper ☺️☺️☺️

Pierluigi Traverso : Thank you so much for the link and providing me knowledge regarding citation.

Thank you !

Sanaa N Al- Haj Ali : Sure, you can. It's really informative.

Doufnoune RACHIDA Rachida : Thank you for the answer. Thank you for making me understand in most precise way.

Kamal Prasad Sapkota ; Thank you for answering my queries. Also, thank you for the information regarding citation.

Injila Tiwari : Thank you for the answer. It meant a lot.

Dear Kabita Shah,

First of all, i would like to appreciate you for your nice question. I read the above answers, and I am fully agree with "Pierluigi Traverso", please follow his answers and also go through the provided link. I do believe that it will be very much helpful for you and the others who are interested to learn in this specific issues. Thank you so much Kabita.

Dear Kabita Shah for many more answers on this question please see this closely related RG thread entitled "What is the most useful measure of the quality of academic research: Reads, Recommendations, or Citations?" which has already received 1700+ answers:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_most_useful_measure_of_the_quality_of_academic_research_Reads_Recommendations_or_Citations#view=5faab438b67b5d15a94bc606

Personally I would not worry too much about citations. They will come eventually when other researchers find your papers interesting. Just let them come in and continue doing great research!

Yes. Research citation considers a very important factor for scientific research quality.

Nice question @kabita shah

Dear Bayan Khalaf,

Thank you for your appropriate and precise answer. You have mentioned the answer correctly and i am agree with you that citation have significant role. I do acknowledge your answer. Thank you.

M. D.H. Prodhan : Thank you for the suggestions and answering my queries.

Frank T. Edelmann Thank you so much for giving your views and thoughts regarding citation values. Yes, of course, we should always focus on doing great research. Thank you for the links.

shahin mardani

Subina Tripathi Thank you.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311665427_Journal_Impact_Factors_Researcher_h-index_How_to_improve_research_quality

Dear Kabita Shah we never cared much about citations. There isn't much you can do to influence them anyway. Other researchers can find your work interesting and cite it or not. Hunting for more citations is as (un)important as RG score hunting. In over 40 years of chemical research, we never changed the topic or direction of our research work in view of prospective citations (or the lack thereof). Just be patient and let the citations come.

Very useful the articles recommended by Pierluigi Traverso

Dear Kabita Shah let me add that I don't really understand the desire to increase citations either! I have never seen citations count when it came to promotion within the university or get hired. We did successful research in inorganic chemistry for about 25 years (1976 - ca. 2000) without knowing our citation counts (because there was no internet). Even today I don't care much about citations. I recently found out that ca. 7% of all our research papers have never been cited, not even by ourselves. This does of course not means that they are not interesting. So, once again, my suggestion would be to just watch the citations happen (or not) and keep doing great research.

Dear @ Kabita Shah,

A lot of gratitude to you for asking a very good question and I must thank you for creating the opportunity to say something.

First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Frank T. Edelmann, I am fully agree with him. I do support his comment and really I am motivated from his description. Actually, it does not matter, how many citations added in your profile. I think, we have to do a quality research as well as quality publications. If we are doing a good research and if the published article contain a research work with novelty, I believe that the other researchers will surely be cited. Therefore, I think that citation has impact and i strongly believe that to increase the citation there is no alternative except quality research work. Thank you Kabita for your interest.

Citation is among different parameters which determine importance and significance of research. To increase citation score focus should be on performing good rand impact oriented esearch.

Lobing .....

Dear Sir Prof. Dr. Frank T. Edelmann and Dr. M. D.H. Prodhan, it's my pleasure to notice your detail discussion regarding citations. Now, we are living a digital era and we have the internet facility, where and what kinds of innovative and novel research are ongoing we are able to know it instantly. Everywhere, existing the competition, for showing the own competent, citation has the scientific worth certainly, but many eminent scientists and nation devoted researchers they did the many good deeds in favor of scientific research but they are not now in the limelight. Therefore, the quality work has the good contribution always to serve the nations as well as humanity. Scientists should have to pay heed to do the quality works first and this kind of generosity will help them to touch their deserve the position. Thank you, dear @ Kabita Shah to carry out such important question in this discussion thread.

Please see a related RG Question https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_a_published_paper_with_zero_citations_irrelevant (asked by Michael John McAleer, April 9,2019).