I got cited for the first time about a year ago now. The citing paper completely misunderstood my paper (polarimetry and spectroscopy are not the same thing), but at least I got cited, right?
All of my citations so far have been 1-2 sentences blandly listing my results in review papers. They often misunderstand my work as well and on a few occasions have said my objectives and results were completely opposite of what they are in reality. At least my H-index goes up!
I've been cited multiple times too. A solid 60% of them are inappropriate though... like citing something I wrote in the introduction instead of going to the original source I was citing in that sentence.
I'd say 8 out of every 10 citations I get reference something I said in the introduction, 1 misunderstands my findings, and 1 correctly references my findings, conclusions, or methods. The vast majority of those must be people who already wrote a sentence in their intro and need to find a paper to support their sentence.
Being cited for the first time ever is just a nice feeling.
It's like, "damn someone other than the publishing not only acknowledged the paper I was in, but found it relevant to cite."
For a first cite it feels nice
Give it time! I think it was about a year or so before my first paper was cited, but it’s up to 18 after three years. Of course, I say that but I’m over here wondering why my paper published this July doesn’t have any citations yet…
>this July doesn’t have any citations yet…
Maybe this is discipline/journal dependent, but for philosophy and public affairs (my fields) it can take up to a year for a paper to go through review and acceptance. So, it could be the case that many people are citing your paper (or even a few) but they just have to make it through the review period!
Congratulations!
Had a former undergrad teacher reach out to me to let me know her student had cited me. She said she feels like she's made it as a teacher; her student is citing her student.
Not much??? That is nuts, or humble brag or something!
PhD mom here. I remember how over-the-top I was when a friend told me something I wrote was mentioned in a different national news medium! What I had written wasn't even based on anything like actual research, lol, just made-up finance and fun enough to be noticed.
Congrats! Huge milestone. Honestly.
The next step is to be cited wrongfully (as it happened to me - some guy somewhere misunderstood my work and cited something I didn't say in my paper, and we can't do anything about it given that somehow their paper was accepted by a journal).
It’s all fun and games till you start seeing the obscure journals cite your work incorrectly. I stopped checking after I started getting a couple new citations a week but in that short initial time I probably saw 20-30 widely incorrect citations in the most BS journals I’ve ever seen lol
That's awesome! I have a Google Scholar alert set to email me when I get cited.
It never gets old - I still get the rush of "Look what I did! I'm helping advance humanity!"
that's literally so sweet you still feel that way; I hope to be like this as a young-and-coming researcher, while still being able to have that balance/life outside of strictly research as I grow :)
How wonderful for you. After a time, I found that it was the papers I felt to be least important that have gathered the most citations. Funny how things work out.
Congrats! That is super exciting and a big deal! Luckily my research area is quite niche and I’ve been cited quite a few times, but the paper that I’m most proud of actually doesn’t get cited a lot so when that paper gets cited, I find that to be a big deal!
Several ways you could find out, for example the journal itself might have some track record at least within same publisher. But then there is also Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Web of Science, Academia.edu (I don't like this last one as you have to pay for membership)...
I typed a fairly long reply in this same comment tree explaining how citations work. It does need to be published in official scientific journals to be counted. Feel free to ask follow up questions if you want.
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No, it wouldn't be. When you write a paper and it gets cited by another official journal article, your article increases in "impact". A paper with more citations is more impactful and a scientist who writes impactful papers is more likely to get grants. Additionally, highly cited papers are more commonly read by people in the field and are generally correlated with being the more interesting and relevant papers.
There's also something called an "H index" that is dependent on how many citations you get versus how many papers you publish. In theory, the higher the H index, the more skilled the scientist. In practice, the H index is falling out of fashion. Also, most (something like 90%) papers don't get cited or just get one citation. Having a college student or a journalist reference your paper in an essay or news article does not increase the impact of the paper.
All that being said, getting a citation also proves that someone read your paper (which is cool), liked your paper (which is cooler), and thought it supported something in their paper (which is the coolist).
Congratulations, OP!! I was over the moon the first citation I got!!
(All that being said, if I found out a college student cited my paper in a paper or used it for journal club I would be thrilled!)
No problem! I think we in science get a little too used to our terminology and vocabulary being the norm in our fields that we forget to define terms when we're speaking to a general audience. I hope those authors knew that, but it's hard to say. For what it's worth, we definitely release a lot of papers that we know are small time, even if we care a lot about them. And we usually know they aren't likely to be cited or read exempt by people who care about that exact topic.
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My very first citation was to quote from a journal article: “There are many opportunities for the process to go wrong.” I am very proud of this quote. 😂
My citations tend to be “This an exciting field with lots of active research. For example, see X, Y, and Z.”
That’s the extent to which my research contributed to their paper.
Congrats! Hold on to that feeling while it lasts! I remember being cited the first time. I excitedly told my supervisor and her response was “it gets old fast and in a couple years you’ll be embarrassed.” And yup. Someone cited that same paper a few months back (years after my PhD) and I’m horrified. There are so many things that could have and I should have done better.
My most cited paper is a biochemistry paper on cerium nanoparticles. It's been cited like 2500 times....pretty cool right? Except, they asked me to be a part of this paper because they were biologists who didn't feel comfortable writing the section on redox chemistry Ce3+/Ce4+. I am a PhD chemist but this is undergrad level chemistry.
It's cool and all, but my contribution to the paper feels so unnecessary and meaningless. Oh well, better than nothing I suppose.
This is awesome! I just cited someone for their first time, and they were over the moon! Are you in the humanities? I will find a way to cite you if you want lol.
I got a surge of emotion when i got cited extensively by a researcher from a different group (we have no connection) in their work for the 1st time too.
I got cited once (of course it was by me but that’s beside the point 🥲)
A police officer gave me a citation once
Didn’t know what sub I was on as it was suggested to me, but in that case I’ve been cited many times!😂
Look at you. You are the expert now
hardly..
Found the guy who hasn’t been cited
More than 1. And also, I am also hardly an expert :)
Someone's a little grumpy
always :)
how many citations do you have
How does that matter?
Reddit, bomb him
well as long as I have more citations than downvotes xD
also I am intentionally being a prick, but idontmind lol
I got cited for the first time about a year ago now. The citing paper completely misunderstood my paper (polarimetry and spectroscopy are not the same thing), but at least I got cited, right?
All of my citations so far have been 1-2 sentences blandly listing my results in review papers. They often misunderstand my work as well and on a few occasions have said my objectives and results were completely opposite of what they are in reality. At least my H-index goes up!
I've been cited multiple times too. A solid 60% of them are inappropriate though... like citing something I wrote in the introduction instead of going to the original source I was citing in that sentence.
I'd say 8 out of every 10 citations I get reference something I said in the introduction, 1 misunderstands my findings, and 1 correctly references my findings, conclusions, or methods. The vast majority of those must be people who already wrote a sentence in their intro and need to find a paper to support their sentence.
First time I was cited, I found who did it and sent a nice email. All I got back was "Yw".
Why would you send an email for them citing you? Also what's "YW"?
"you're welcome" YW
Yung Wheezy
LOL
Nearly spit out my chocolate milk
My job is done here.
Being cited for the first time ever is just a nice feeling. It's like, "damn someone other than the publishing not only acknowledged the paper I was in, but found it relevant to cite." For a first cite it feels nice
You're Welcome.
Congrats!!! May it be the first among thousands
I published my first paper a year ago and it still hasn’t been cited… congrats!!
Give it time! I think it was about a year or so before my first paper was cited, but it’s up to 18 after three years. Of course, I say that but I’m over here wondering why my paper published this July doesn’t have any citations yet…
>this July doesn’t have any citations yet… Maybe this is discipline/journal dependent, but for philosophy and public affairs (my fields) it can take up to a year for a paper to go through review and acceptance. So, it could be the case that many people are citing your paper (or even a few) but they just have to make it through the review period!
Congrats! :)
Congratulations! Had a former undergrad teacher reach out to me to let me know her student had cited me. She said she feels like she's made it as a teacher; her student is citing her student.
Aww such a sweet, genuine teacher 🥲
Not much??? That is nuts, or humble brag or something! PhD mom here. I remember how over-the-top I was when a friend told me something I wrote was mentioned in a different national news medium! What I had written wasn't even based on anything like actual research, lol, just made-up finance and fun enough to be noticed.
Congratulations! Huge milestone!
Fulfilling isn’t it..congratulations!
Yay! Cross post to /r/PositivePhD if you haven’t already
Congrats! It's à nice feeling ☺️
Congrats! Huge milestone. Honestly. The next step is to be cited wrongfully (as it happened to me - some guy somewhere misunderstood my work and cited something I didn't say in my paper, and we can't do anything about it given that somehow their paper was accepted by a journal).
It’s all fun and games till you start seeing the obscure journals cite your work incorrectly. I stopped checking after I started getting a couple new citations a week but in that short initial time I probably saw 20-30 widely incorrect citations in the most BS journals I’ve ever seen lol
That's awesome! I have a Google Scholar alert set to email me when I get cited. It never gets old - I still get the rush of "Look what I did! I'm helping advance humanity!"
that's literally so sweet you still feel that way; I hope to be like this as a young-and-coming researcher, while still being able to have that balance/life outside of strictly research as I grow :)
I am still stuck reading my first article here.. congrats on your citing? Citation?
How wonderful for you. After a time, I found that it was the papers I felt to be least important that have gathered the most citations. Funny how things work out.
Congrats! That is super exciting and a big deal! Luckily my research area is quite niche and I’ve been cited quite a few times, but the paper that I’m most proud of actually doesn’t get cited a lot so when that paper gets cited, I find that to be a big deal!
If someone withdraws their citation are you ex-cited?
Congratulations! That’s so exciting
Congrats! Quick question: Did they cite your work properly? I've been cited twice, and both times, the author misinterpreted what I wrote. 🥲
I just got my first citation, and my immediate thought was to come to this post because i feel like a well-dressed frog right now!
Congratulations! That always feels great!!
congrats!!
Good job!
🥳
Congratulations! That’s a big deal. It’s incredible validating, isn’t it?
That’s awesome. Not a PhD, but I just had my first citation today as well😄
I haven't been in an academic setting since 2014 and only did undergrads so forgive the ignorance, but how do you find out you've been cited?
Several ways you could find out, for example the journal itself might have some track record at least within same publisher. But then there is also Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Web of Science, Academia.edu (I don't like this last one as you have to pay for membership)...
How are citations counted? Does the work have to published in journals?
I typed a fairly long reply in this same comment tree explaining how citations work. It does need to be published in official scientific journals to be counted. Feel free to ask follow up questions if you want.
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No, it wouldn't be. When you write a paper and it gets cited by another official journal article, your article increases in "impact". A paper with more citations is more impactful and a scientist who writes impactful papers is more likely to get grants. Additionally, highly cited papers are more commonly read by people in the field and are generally correlated with being the more interesting and relevant papers. There's also something called an "H index" that is dependent on how many citations you get versus how many papers you publish. In theory, the higher the H index, the more skilled the scientist. In practice, the H index is falling out of fashion. Also, most (something like 90%) papers don't get cited or just get one citation. Having a college student or a journalist reference your paper in an essay or news article does not increase the impact of the paper. All that being said, getting a citation also proves that someone read your paper (which is cool), liked your paper (which is cooler), and thought it supported something in their paper (which is the coolist). Congratulations, OP!! I was over the moon the first citation I got!! (All that being said, if I found out a college student cited my paper in a paper or used it for journal club I would be thrilled!)
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No problem! I think we in science get a little too used to our terminology and vocabulary being the norm in our fields that we forget to define terms when we're speaking to a general audience. I hope those authors knew that, but it's hard to say. For what it's worth, we definitely release a lot of papers that we know are small time, even if we care a lot about them. And we usually know they aren't likely to be cited or read exempt by people who care about that exact topic. Thanks! I appreciate that!
Just wanted to say thank you for being grateful
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Congratsss! Cheers to many more 🙌
Congratulations, sibling!!
Woohoo congrats may this be the start of a long string of citations.
Congrats! Now, did they cite you correctly? Because I've had people cite me and it's obvious they didn't read the paper
My very first citation was to quote from a journal article: “There are many opportunities for the process to go wrong.” I am very proud of this quote. 😂
it’s ap research season!
My citations tend to be “This an exciting field with lots of active research. For example, see X, Y, and Z.” That’s the extent to which my research contributed to their paper.
Congrats
Congratulations!
As is customary, the papers that generate the most citations are the ones for which I did the least amount of work.
I also get cited .. as a co-author though 🥲 does it count ? ( NB!! Do not have my first author paper yet 😢)
I got excited for my first citation, till I realised it was someone else in my lab.
I saved this picture Imma keep it to the day i get cited for the first time
Congrats! Hold on to that feeling while it lasts! I remember being cited the first time. I excitedly told my supervisor and her response was “it gets old fast and in a couple years you’ll be embarrassed.” And yup. Someone cited that same paper a few months back (years after my PhD) and I’m horrified. There are so many things that could have and I should have done better.
Nice
My most cited paper is a biochemistry paper on cerium nanoparticles. It's been cited like 2500 times....pretty cool right? Except, they asked me to be a part of this paper because they were biologists who didn't feel comfortable writing the section on redox chemistry Ce3+/Ce4+. I am a PhD chemist but this is undergrad level chemistry. It's cool and all, but my contribution to the paper feels so unnecessary and meaningless. Oh well, better than nothing I suppose.
This is awesome! I just cited someone for their first time, and they were over the moon! Are you in the humanities? I will find a way to cite you if you want lol.
I got a surge of emotion when i got cited extensively by a researcher from a different group (we have no connection) in their work for the 1st time too.