Most-cited articles by year
Heliyon
Elsevier BV · ISSN 2405-8440 · 45,568 works in OpenAlex · h-index 194
Lists by publication year
Each list ranks the articles Heliyon published that year by citations counted in OpenAlex on the snapshot date. Ranks are frozen once published.
- 2024Top 100 of 16,966 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2023Top 100 of 10,715 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2022Top 100 of 4,022 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2021Top 100 of 2,846 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2020Top 100 of 2,738 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2019Top 50 of 1,996 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2018Top 50 of 616 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2017Top 10 of 277 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2016Top 10 of 156 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
About these lists
Heliyon published between 156 and 16,966 eligible articles a year in the years covered, so each list shows the top 100. Every entry shows its rank, the share of the year’s cohort it beats, its citation count and, where OpenAlex has one, the abstract. Authors can claim an entry for a badge and a CV line, or ask to have their name withheld.
Read the methodology for cohort rules, exclusions and the snapshot policy.
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