| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping | Scientometrics | 2010 | 10,138 |
| 2 | The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis | Scientometrics | 2016 | 2,310 |
| 3 | Assessment of client/patient satisfaction: Development of a general scale | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1979 | 2,227 |
| 4 | Operations on fuzzy numbers | International Journal of Systems Science | 1978 | 2,143 |
| 5 | Theory and practise of the g-index | Scientometrics | 2006 | 1,668 |
| 6 | The bibliometric analysis of scholarly production: How great is the impact? | Scientometrics | 2015 | 1,542 |
| 7 | Citation review of Lagergren kinetic rate equation on adsorption reactions | Scientometrics | 2004 | 1,486 |
| 8 | The client satisfaction questionnaire | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1982 | 1,343 |
| 9 | Citation-based clustering of publications using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer | Scientometrics | 2017 | 1,333 |
| 10 | Co-word analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemsitry | Scientometrics | 1991 | 1,252 |
| 11 | An introduction to concept mapping for planning and evaluation | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1989 | 1,135 |
| 12 | Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison | Scientometrics | 2016 | 1,057 |
| 13 | Defining and measuring patient satisfaction with medical care | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1983 | 1,033 |
| 14 | A quality of life interview for the chronically mentally ill | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1988 | 990 |
| 15 | Patient satisfaction in primary health care: A literature review and analysis | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1983 | 962 |
| 16 | Toward a definition of “bibliometrics” | Scientometrics | 1987 | 930 |
| 17 | Negative results are disappearing from most disciplines and countries | Scientometrics | 2012 | 910 |
| 18 | Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system † | International Journal of Systems Science | 1970 | 871 |
| 19 | The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index | Scientometrics | 2010 | 753 |
| 20 | Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool? | Scientometrics | 1979 | 729 |
| 21 | Mapping the backbone of science | Scientometrics | 2005 | 713 |
| 22 | Decision making: A psychological analysis of conflict, choice, and commitment | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1978 | 691 |
| 23 | The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A comparative analysis | Scientometrics | 2021 | 650 |
| 24 | Mapping knowledge structure by keyword co-occurrence: a first look at journal papers in Technology Foresight | Scientometrics | 2010 | 643 |
| 25 | The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics | Scientometrics | 2001 | 636 |
| 26 | Assessment of patient satisfaction: Development and refinement of a Service Evaluation Questionnaire | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1983 | 620 |
| 27 | Bibliometric monitoring of research performance in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: A Review | Scientometrics | 2006 | 581 |
| 28 | Fatal attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods | Scientometrics | 2005 | 578 |
| 29 | Is science becoming more interdisciplinary? Measuring and mapping six research fields over time | Scientometrics | 2009 | 567 |
| 30 | Distributed robust finite-time nonlinear consensus protocols for multi-agent systems | International Journal of Systems Science | 2016 | 558 |
| 31 | A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers | Scientometrics | 2020 | 553 |
| 32 | Factors affecting number of citations: a comprehensive review of the literature | Scientometrics | 2016 | 550 |
| 33 | Electric load forecasting: Literature survey and classification of methods | International Journal of Systems Science | 2002 | 548 |
| 34 | National characteristics in international scientific co-authorship relations | Scientometrics | 2001 | 540 |
| 35 | Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar | Scientometrics | 2008 | 529 |
| 36 | A Hirsch-type index for journals | Scientometrics | 2006 | 522 |
| 37 | Logic models: a tool for telling your programs performance story | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1999 | 504 |
| 38 | Stability analysis of switched systems with stable and unstable subsystems: An average dwell time approach | International Journal of Systems Science | 2001 | 494 |
| 39 | Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups | Scientometrics | 2006 | 490 |
| 40 | Studying research collaboration using co-authorships | Scientometrics | 1996 | 484 |
| 41 | Patent statistics as indicators of innovative activities: Possibilities and problems | Scientometrics | 1985 | 482 |
| 42 | Diversity and network coherence as indicators of interdisciplinarity: case studies in bionanoscience | Scientometrics | 2010 | 481 |
| 43 | Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations | Scientometrics | 2021 | 473 |
| 44 | Perceived self-efficacy in the exercise of control over AIDS infection | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1990 | 460 |
| 45 | Assessing the impact of planned social change | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1979 | 453 |
| 46 | Sliding mode observers: a survey | International Journal of Systems Science | 2008 | 444 |
| 47 | Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences? | Scientometrics | 2005 | 441 |
| 48 | Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles | International Journal of Systems Science | 2006 | 437 |
| 49 | Journal impact measures in bibliometric research | Scientometrics | 2002 | 432 |
| 50 | Is it possible to compare researchers with different scientific interests? | Scientometrics | 2006 | 427 |
| 51 | Problems of citation analysis | Scientometrics | 1996 | 426 |
| 52 | Studies in scientific collaboration | Scientometrics | 1978 | 425 |
| 53 | Sleeping Beauties in science | Scientometrics | 2004 | 418 |
| 54 | Cone ratio data envelopment analysis and multi-objective programming | International Journal of Systems Science | 1989 | 414 |
| 55 | Validity of self-reported drug use among injection drug users and crack cocaine users recruited through street outreach | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1994 | 407 |
| 56 | Quality and rigor of the concept mapping methodology: A pooled study analysis | Evaluation and Program Planning | 2012 | 406 |
| 57 | New bibliometric tools for the assessment of national research performance: Database description, overview of indicators and first applications | Scientometrics | 1995 | 401 |
| 58 | Web of Science use in published research and review papers 1997–2017: a selective, dynamic, cross-domain, content-based analysis | Scientometrics | 2018 | 401 |
| 59 | Reflections on Scientific Collaboration (and its study): Past, Present, and Future | Scientometrics | 2001 | 397 |
| 60 | Google Scholar to overshadow them all? Comparing the sizes of 12 academic search engines and bibliographic databases | Scientometrics | 2019 | 396 |
| 61 | A critical analysis of evaluation practice: the Kirkpatrick model and the principle of beneficence | Evaluation and Program Planning | 2004 | 394 |
| 62 | Journal status | Scientometrics | 2006 | 389 |
| 63 | Geographical proximity and scientific collaboration | Scientometrics | 1994 | 380 |
| 64 | Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies | Scientometrics | 2004 | 375 |
| 65 | A survey of linear matrix inequality techniques in stability analysis of delay systems | International Journal of Systems Science | 2008 | 372 |
| 66 | A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science for a typical university | Scientometrics | 2009 | 369 |
| 67 | Scientific co-operation in Europe and the citation of multinationally authored papers | Scientometrics | 1991 | 363 |
| 68 | Relative indicators and relational charts for comparative assessment of publication output and citation impact | Scientometrics | 1986 | 355 |
| 69 | Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases | Scientometrics | 2006 | 352 |
| 70 | Visualizing the intellectual structure and evolution of innovation systems research: a bibliometric analysis | Scientometrics | 2015 | 343 |
| 71 | Behavioral consequences of consumer dissatisfaction with medical care | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1983 | 338 |
| 72 | Quality of life in the evaluation of community support systems | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1982 | 337 |
| 73 | Bibliometric analysis of tsunami research | Scientometrics | 2007 | 331 |
| 74 | UAV path planning using artificial potential field method updated by optimal control theory | International Journal of Systems Science | 2016 | 331 |
| 75 | Building capacity and sustainable prevention innovations: a sustainability planning model | Evaluation and Program Planning | 2004 | 317 |
| 76 | An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output that takes into account the effect of multiple coauthorship | Scientometrics | 2010 | 313 |
| 77 | Intuitionistic fuzzy interpretations of multi-criteria multi-person and multi-measurement tool decision making | International Journal of Systems Science | 2005 | 311 |
| 78 | Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work? | Scientometrics | 2005 | 309 |
| 79 | Outcome pattern matching and program theory | Evaluation and Program Planning | 1989 | 308 |
| 80 | (null) | Scientometrics | 2001 | 307 |
| 81 | Measuring researcher interdisciplinarity | Scientometrics | 2007 | 305 |
| 82 | Generalized Hirsch h-index for disclosing latent facts in citation networks | Scientometrics | 2007 | 305 |
| 83 | Advanced bibliometric methods as quantitative core of peer review based evaluation and foresight exercises | Scientometrics | 1996 | 303 |
| 84 | Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and patterns of research collaboration in nanoscience and nanotechnology | Scientometrics | 2004 | 302 |
| 85 | Patent bibliometrics | Scientometrics | 1994 | 301 |
| 86 | Continuous approximation of variable structure control | International Journal of Systems Science | 1986 | 300 |
| 87 | How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of ‘alternative metrics’ in scientific publications | Scientometrics | 2014 | 300 |
| 88 | The difficulty of achieving full coverage of international social science literature and the bibliometric consequences | Scientometrics | 1999 | 299 |
| 89 | Simplified neutrosophic sets and their applications in multi-criteria group decision-making problems | International Journal of Systems Science | 2016 | 299 |
| 90 | Co-citation analysis and the search for invisible colleges: A methodological evaluation | Scientometrics | 2003 | 289 |
| 91 | The use of multiple indicators in the assessment of basic research | Scientometrics | 1996 | 288 |
| 92 | Theories of citation? | Scientometrics | 1998 | 284 |
| 93 | How much is a collaboration worth? A calibrated bibliometric model | Scientometrics | 1997 | 282 |
| 94 | Citation time window choice for research impact evaluation | Scientometrics | 2013 | 279 |
| 95 | A macro study of self-citation | Scientometrics | 2003 | 275 |
| 96 | (null) | Scientometrics | 2003 | 272 |
| 97 | Patent citation analysis.A closer look at the basic input data from patent search reports | Scientometrics | 2001 | 271 |
| 98 | A procedure for multiple-aspect decision making using fuzzy sets | International Journal of Systems Science | 1977 | 270 |
| 99 | Making public health programs last: conceptualizing sustainability | Evaluation and Program Planning | 2004 | 268 |
| 100 | Scientific literature analysis on big data and internet of things applications on circular economy: a bibliometric study | Scientometrics | 2017 | 267 |
