Why the study?
Citation count is widely used to measure academic impact, but parameters independent of individual papers' quality may determine citation rates.
Population
4756 papers published in six selected tribology journals between January 2010 and December 2015
Comparison
Citations compared across manuscript length, author count, institutions, international co-authors, references, title length, and publication mode
Design
Bibliometric analysis
Authors
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Citation metrics warrant cautious use in evaluations; novel Level 5 finding leaves open need for validated alternatives.
Citations of papers in tribology journals are positively affected by manuscript length, number of references, number of authors/institutions/countries, and open access status, independent of scientific merit.
Liśkiewicz et al. (2021) studied this question.