Abstract(s)
This article inquires into recent claims that citation in a review article provokes a decline in a paper’s later citation
count, these being instead given to the review. Using the Science Citation Index Expanded, we looked at the
yearly percentages of lifetime citations of papers published in 1990 first cited in review articles in 1992 and 1995
in the field of biomedical research, and found no significant change to occur following review, regardless of the
papers’ citation activity or specialty. Further comparison was made with papers from the field of clinical research,
but yielded no meaningful results to support the notion that review articles have any substantial effect on the
citation count of the papers they review.