title: The changing face of BECT: a citation analysis covering 1966-2009.
abstract: A citation analysis was completed on articles published in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology over the period of 1966-2009. Articles were grouped into 5 year intervals and the top 50 most-cited papers in each year interval were categorized according to research theme. Over the journal's history, articles in the toxicity research theme dominated top-cited articles published by the journal followed by articles in the environmental concentration theme and the mechanistic theme. The geographic area of submission of top-cited articles has shown large changes with time, initially being dominated by papers from North American and now dominated by papers from Asia. An examination of the citation history for the highest cited paper in each year interval indicated that the average time to achieve 90 % of total citations is 25 years.
authors.affiliation: Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4, Canada.
authors.forename: Ken G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Drouillard
authors.forename: Erin R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Bennett
mesh_terms: D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*