title: A review of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology's most cited publications over the past 25 years and the use of developing bibliometric methodologies to assess journal quality.
abstract: The JID is a major resource for publishing dermatologic research. Here we document bibliometric systems that permit detailed analysis of JID's relative scientific quality. We provide an overview of metrics employed by ISI Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and Elsevier's open-access Scopus to measure JID's comparative performance. We list JID's 50 most cited articles between 1986 and 2010 and summarize the six most cited papers published during this period. We conclude by showing how selected cited papers have influenced research in the JID subcategories of immunology/infection and photobiology during this period. JID has thrived as the strength of its editorial leadership and the quality of dermatologic science have grown apace.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA. drb25@columbia.edu
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Bickers
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Modlin
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057386:Search Engine / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data