Temporal Characteristics of Clinical Citation Accumulation for Biomedical Papers

Highly clinically cited biomedical papers have distinct advantages over medium and lowly clinically cited papers in accumulating clinical citations, both in the initial stage (from 0 to 1st clinical citation) and the build-up stage (from 1st to Nth clinical citation). Biomedical papers closer to clinical science more easily receive clinical citations than papers closer to basic science.