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have different standards for citation and different
time spans across which citations occur, Eigenfactor
employs an algorithm that uses the entire Web of Results from space station research
Science citation network from Clarivate Analytics reach beyond international borders,
(formerly an analytical component of Thomson
Reuters). This algorithm spans the previous 5 years and beyond the countries whose
to create a metric that evaluates the importance of agencies sponsored them.
each journal (www.eigenfactor.org).
The Eigenfactor Score counts citations to journals
in both the sciences and social sciences, eliminates
self-citations of journals, and is intended to reflect the
amount of time researchers spend reading the journal. Following are the top five most-cited results
Since the first ISS publication,135 ISS publications publications from space station research as
have been listed in the top 100 journals by Eigenfactor; of May 30, 2018.
85 of those ISS publications were in the top 10 journals The AMS-02 investigation collected and analyzed
as reported by Clarivate Analytics.
billions of cosmic ray events, and identified 9 million
of these as electrons or positrons (antimatter), thereby
Global Impacts on Science providing data that may lead to the solution of the
origin of cosmic rays and antimatter and increase the
Results from space station research reach beyond understanding of how our galaxy was formed. (Aguilar-
international borders, and beyond the countries Benitez M, et al., Physical Review Letters, 2013.
whose agencies sponsored them. The heat map Times Cited = 489)
below provides a global representation of all the
countries that have cited the ISS results published in The Subregional Bone investigation found that the
scholarly journals. Such maps illustrate the international greatest space-induced bone loss occurs in pelvis,
hip, and leg bones, which should be the focus of
reach of ISS publications and their subsequent
contributions to scientific literature. countermeasures and surface activities designed for
space explorers on future missions beyond low-Earth

A heat map of all of the countries whose authors have cited all scientific publications from ISS research.
Image credit: NASA

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