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Editorial
. 2025 Nov 20:6:22.
doi: 10.17879/freeneuropathology-2025-9124. eCollection 2025.

Free Neuropathology: A bibliometric impact analysis

Georg Haase  1 , Marta Margeta  2 , Ralf Mersmann  3 , Werner Paulus  3
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Free Neuropathology: A bibliometric impact analysis

Georg Haase et al. Free Neuropathol. .
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Keywords: Bibliometry; Citation index; Google Scholar; Impact factor; Scopus.

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The author declares no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Citation of FNP papers. A. CiteScore values for FNP from 2020 to 2024. The CiteScore is defined as the number of a journal’s citations during a four-year period divided by the number of citable items published during the same period. B. Number of FNP papers (in black) indexed in the Scopus database (in pink) or the Google Scholar database (in green). C. Cumulative plot showing the number of citations received by FNP papers. FNP papers published in 2020 were cited 232 times by 2024. FNP papers published in 2021 or before were cited 502 times by 2024. Taken together, published FNP papers received a total of 669 citations by 2024. D. Top 15 cited FNP papers according to Google Scholar and the number of their citations.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Electronic consultation of FNP papers. A. The 15 most accessed FNP papers with the corresponding number of accesses. B and C. Access over time to the two most accessed FNP papers from 2020 (B) and 2023 (C) via the FNP website (in dark red) or the PMC website (in light red). Access to FNP papers was analyzed through an Excel file merging five separate datasets: (1) an FNP dataset comprising author name, title, publication date, document identifier (DOI) and PMC ID, (2) an FNP dataset comprising global bibliographic metrics for each paper, (3) an FNP dataset comprising monthly bibliographic metrics, (4) a PMC dataset comprising monthly bibliographic metrics, and (5) a Google Scholar dataset comprising bibliographic metrics.
Figure 3
Figure 3
FNP papers per topic. A. Percentage of FNP papers concerning different neuropathology topics. Abstracts from neuropathological societies and papers that cover personal recollections, flashbacks, or neuropathological techniques are not included. B. Mean number of accesses to FNP papers per neuropathological topic.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Consultation of FNP papers belonging to different categories. A. Mean number of accesses to FNP papers in each publication category. B. Accesses to abstracts of the annual meetings of the German, French, Canadian, Indian/Asian and Australian/New Zealand neuropathological societies, as a fraction of the total. C. The number of accesses (x-axis) and the number of citations (y-axis) are significantly correlated (R = 0.696). Two papers with a very large number of citations (see D) are excluded from the graph for clarity. D. Number of accesses (x-axis) and citations (y-axis) for FNP papers representing clinicopathological updates (turquoise), top ten papers (orange), or other categories (black). The ratio between the number of citations and the number of accesses differs significantly among the three categories of papers (p < 0.01 by Mann-Whitney test). The analysis included only the papers published prior to 2023 to ensure at least two years of data.
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