Reminds me of the noticeable higher citation counts of arxiv submissions that appear first in the announcement lists: arxiv.org/abs/0907.4740
A similar effect may be happening here: just appearing first in the journal webpage could boost the citation count.
arXiv.org mediates contact with the literature for entire scholarly communities, both through provision of archival access and through daily email and web announcements of new materials, potentially m...
This paper and its findings are *nuts* if you start to think about all the irreversible bumps that folks who landed in these “article number 1” slots received… 🫣
Dan Larremore
5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1.
5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s.
Coincidence? 👇
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I think not.
