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The most cited authors and papers in tobacco control

F Byrne, S Chapman

School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Correspondence to:
Professor Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, Edward Ford building A27, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; simonchapman@health.usyd.edu.au

Keywords: author citation; paper citation; tobacco control

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In this paper, we present the first attempt at determining which authors of research and commentary of direct relevance to tobacco control have the most cited publications in this field. We examine this from 1980 to 2004 and also for the past decade (1994–2004) in an effort to distinguish the 100 overall most cited authors for these periods. We have also provided a list of the 50 highest citation classics in tobacco control.

Citations are the most common way of measuring the impact in the scientific community of an article, and cumulatively, of a researcher.^1–3 However, there can be important differences between evaluating impact and the quality of a paper. The quality of a paper is essentially characterised by the notion of possible value and this cannot be easily measured in an objective and quantitative way.⁴ Smith has suggested a range of ways in which scientific output might otherwise be . . . [Full text of this article]

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This article has been cited by other articles:

• Ragucci, K. R, Shrader, S. P (2009). A Method for Educating Patients and Documenting Smoking Status in an Electronic Medical Record. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 43: 1616-1620 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Chapman, S (2005). The most important and influential papers in tobacco control: results of an online poll. Tobacco Control 14: e1-e1 [Full Text]