ESI highly cited papers refer to papers published in journals included in ESI in recent 65,438+00 years. Compared with all papers published in the same year, classmates and the same publishing type, the cited times rank in the top 65,438+0% in the world.

1. Generally speaking, it is the most cited and top-ranked high-level paper in the same ESI discipline that year. But it is not a paper published in a high-level journal or a high-level paper, depending on the number of citations.

2. To understand highly cited papers, you have to understand ESI. ESI(Essential Science Indicators) is essentially a database, but its data comes from WOS, and its content mainly focuses on the influence of research institutions, papers and periodicals. When it comes to sorting, disciplines need to be classified. ESI classifies all directions into 22 disciplines.

3. Database of basic scientific indicators. ESI has become one of the important evaluation index tools widely used to evaluate the international academic level and influence of universities, academic institutions and countries/regions.

4. The database of basic scientific indicators is a basic analysis and evaluation tool launched by ISI in 200 1 to measure the performance of scientific research and track the development trend of science. It is a quantitative analysis database based on 12000 documents of more than 65438 academic journals collected by SCIE and SSCI.