Most-cited articles, by journal and year

Which papers in a journal were cited most? Each list ranks one journal's articles from one publication year by OpenAlex citation count, frozen at a stated date so a rank can be quoted and checked.

journals: 208
year lists: 1,610
ranked articles: 93,060
citation source: OpenAlex

By journal

Browse 208 journals with lists per year. Top 10, 50 or 100 depending on how much the journal publishes.

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How the ranks are computed

Cohorts, exclusions, cutoffs and the snapshot rule. Everything a reader needs to check a claimed rank.

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For authors

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Journals with the most lists

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What a list is, and is not

A list is a plain bibliometric fact: the articles a journal published in one year, ordered by how often OpenAlex has seen them cited by the snapshot date. It is not an award, a quality judgment or a peer assessment. Citation counts differ between databases (Google Scholar and Scopus count different sources), so every page names its source and date.

Lists are frozen. When a list has been published, its ranks do not move, so a line in a CV that quotes a rank stays true. New years are added once citations have had two years to accumulate.

Authors can ask to have their name withheld on every list, and the entry stays in place. See the methodology.

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