Do longer articles gather more citations? Article length and scholarly impact among top biomedical journals

• Published in: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 319 - 326
• Main Authors: Lyu, Peng‐hui, Wolfram, Dietmar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Article length; biomedical journals; citation; publish or perish; scholarly impact

ABSTRACT Publications represent the most tangible products of research and scholarly communication. Growing pressures placed on researchers to increase their publication counts may encourage them to publish shorter papers, so that more publications may be generated from the same project and program....