title: Impact of Article Page Count and Number of Authors on Citations in Disability Related Fields: A Systematic Review Article.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Citation metrics and total publications in a field has become the gold standard for rating researchers and viability of a field. Hence, stimulating demand for citation has led to a search for useful strategies to improve performance metric index. Meanwhile, title, abstract and morphologic qualities of the articles attract researchers to scientific publications. Yet, there is relatively little understanding of the citation trend in disability related fields. We aimed to provide an insight into the factors associated with citation increase in this field. Additionally, we tried to know at what page number an article might appear attractive to disability researchers needs. Thus, our focus is placed on the article page count and the number of authors contributing to the fields per article.
  
  
  METHODS
  To this end, we evaluated the quantitative characteristics of top cited articles in the fields with a total citation (≥50) in the Web of Science (WoS) database. Using one-way independent ANOVA, data extracted spanning a period of 1980-2015 were analyzed, while the non-parametric data analysis uses Kruskal-Walis test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Articles with 11 to 20 pages attract more citations followed by those within the range of zero to 10. Articles with upward 21 pages are the least cited. Surprisingly, articles with more than two authors are significantly (P<0.05) less cited and the citation decreases as the number of authors increased.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Collaborative studies enjoy wider utilization and more citation, yet discounted merit of additional pages and limited collaborative research in disability field is revealed in this study.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, P.M.B. 3244, Kano, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Abubakar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Mastura
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adam
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Norafida A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Ghafar
authors.affiliation: Dept. of International and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Murtala
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muhammad
authors.affiliation: Research Support Unit, Center for Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Nader Ale
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Ebrahim
keywords: Article page count; Bibliometric; Citation counts; Disability; Number of authors