Dear Mustafa,

There is some correlation between the number of citations and the number of reads. But the number of citations depends on the hotness of the topic and whether the research results are decisive or not. For example research papers in cancer or in biological cells can have very large number of citations where a paper in electronic devices can have only very few as they most contains terminated results.

Another example for large number of citations per paper is in the digital signal processing especially the basic methods and algorithms in DSP since these can be applied in may papers for audio and video signal processing, that is the pioneering papers.

Best wishes

In my opinion Reads in RG cannot be directly correlated with number of citations. I have even seen a RG colleague requesting in this platform to read any of his articles so that his total number of Reads quickly crosses 15000 mark in that particular week!

Citation is a totally different thing. It has perhaps no direct relation with RG reading or recommendation.

Articles publishing result of some project of some institution are cited commonly by the junior researchers of that or related projects. It has a very strong correlation with easy availability of related full articles (as PDF). Sometimes articles of some famous journals are cited, though the author observed only the abstract of the article. In some cases, article of one researcher group is generally cited by another groups and vice versa. It is also seen many times, the previous related articles of a journal or a journal publishing group are cited commonly in the article of same journal or journals of same publishing group.

So, it is better not to involve in thinking of citation of articles!

Hi

I think that Reads in RG is correlated with number of citations. But, I think just the reads that used as a reference in other searches.

regards

(1) Here is the latest one of 2017, read 40 times, cited 3 times and recommended 1 time. The readings and recommandations can be instantaneous, the citations take more time

(2) here is the second latest of 2016, read 96 times, cited 5 times and recommended 1 time.

The relationship among the number of downloads and the citation counts can be tricky see e.g.

Article Statistical relationships between downloads and citations at...

https://www.google.com/search?q=correlation+of+number+of+downloads+and+citations

It depends on a lot of factors which may include the following:

1) Topic/Study (relevant? fresh? interesting?)

2) # of researchers working in the same field

3) time (after publication of your article, the fastest could be ~8months, this is considering that it would take ~4months to write their paper, and another 4 months for the review process... well this is a very rough estimate).

Also, the number of reads here in RG does not have any direct effect/correlation on the number of citations...

Thanks so much for all the answers, they are all very useful

Dear Mustafa,

There is some correlation between the number of citations and the number of reads. But the number of citations depends on the hotness of the topic and whether the research results are decisive or not. For example research papers in cancer or in biological cells can have very large number of citations where a paper in electronic devices can have only very few as they most contains terminated results.

Another example for large number of citations per paper is in the digital signal processing especially the basic methods and algorithms in DSP since these can be applied in may papers for audio and video signal processing, that is the pioneering papers.

Best wishes

Thanks Dr. Zekry,

That makes sense.

Regards

Cite high cited papers in your paper ! Got it ?

Thanks Dr.

Got it :)

Regards.