Earlier publications have shown that the number of references as well as the number of
received citations are field-dependent. Consequently, a long reference list may lead to more
citations. The purpose of this article is to study the concrete relationship between number of
references and citation counts. This article tries to find an answer for the concrete case of
Malaysian highly cited papers and Malaysian review papers. Malaysian paper is a paper with at least
one Malaysian affilation. A total of 2466 papers consisting of two sets, namely 1966 review papers
and 500 highly-cited articles, are studied. The statistical analysis shows that an increase in the
number of references leads to a slight increase in the number of citations. Yet, this increase is not
statistically significant. Therefore, a researcher should not try to increase the number of received
citations by artificially increasing the number of references.
Nader
Ale Ebrahim holds a PhD degree in Technology Management from the Department of
Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of
Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in the Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Tehran with distinguished honors. He also has over 19 years of
experience in the establishment of the R&D departments in different
companies, heading projects as the project director and project coordinator and
implementing knowledge based system in the R&D department. His current
research interest focuses on E-skills, Research Tools, Bibliometrics and
managing virtual NPD teams in SMEs’ R&D centers. His papers/articles have
published and presented in the several journals and conferences.
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