Richard Van Noorden

10.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
217 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Richard Van Noorden is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Information Systems and Management and Reproductive Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Van Noorden has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 25 papers in Information Systems and Management and 20 papers in Reproductive Medicine. Recurrent topics in Richard Van Noorden's work include Science, Research, and Medicine (20 papers), Academic Publishing and Open Access (19 papers) and Health and Medical Research Impacts (16 papers). Richard Van Noorden is often cited by papers focused on Science, Research, and Medicine (20 papers), Academic Publishing and Open Access (19 papers) and Health and Medical Research Impacts (16 papers). Richard Van Noorden collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Richard Van Noorden's co-authors include Chris Stokel-Walker, Brendan A. Maher, Regina Nuzzo, Heidi Ledford, Jeffrey M. Perkel, David Cyranoski, Quirin Schiermeier, Nicola Jones, A. H. A. Abbott and Jeff Tollefson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature.

In The Last Decade

Richard Van Noorden

200 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

The rechargeable revolution: A better battery 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2023 2014 2023 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The rechargeable revolution: A better battery
    2014 910 citations Richard Van Noorden Nature profile →
  2. What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science
    2023 465 citations Richard Van Noorden et al. Nature profile →
  3. Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network
    2014 436 citations Richard Van Noorden Nature profile →
  4. AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think
    2023 143 citations Richard Van Noorden, Jeffrey M. Perkel Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Van Noorden United States 32 1.2k 1.2k 772 589 588 217 6.1k
Ying Ding China 55 1.4k 1.2× 530 0.5× 376 0.5× 2.1k 3.5× 753 1.3× 392 10.6k
Monya Baker United States 31 522 0.4× 166 0.1× 580 0.8× 389 0.7× 359 0.6× 202 6.8k
Declan Butler United States 34 398 0.3× 111 0.1× 345 0.4× 370 0.6× 213 0.4× 682 5.8k
Kevin W. Boyack United States 38 2.5k 2.0× 92 0.1× 910 1.2× 1.3k 2.2× 81 0.1× 92 7.8k
Yuya Kajikawa Japan 41 420 0.3× 524 0.5× 187 0.2× 368 0.6× 476 0.8× 164 5.0k
David Cyranoski Denmark 38 274 0.2× 156 0.1× 146 0.2× 99 0.2× 323 0.5× 548 7.0k
Rob Procter United Kingdom 41 95 0.1× 164 0.1× 418 0.5× 1.2k 2.1× 942 1.6× 271 8.9k
Ismael Ràfols United Kingdom 34 2.8k 2.3× 45 0.0× 1.5k 1.9× 1.0k 1.7× 238 0.4× 119 7.1k
James A. Evans United States 35 1.4k 1.2× 60 0.1× 616 0.8× 506 0.9× 76 0.1× 146 5.6k
Dashun Wang United States 30 1.7k 1.4× 44 0.0× 527 0.7× 616 1.0× 82 0.1× 70 5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Van Noorden

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Van Noorden

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Richard Van Noorden. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Richard Van Noorden. The network helps show where Richard Van Noorden may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Van Noorden

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Van Noorden. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Van Noorden based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richard Van Noorden. Richard Van Noorden is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2025). These are the most-cited research papers of all time. Nature. 640(8059). 591–591. 4 indexed citations
2.
Noorden, Richard Van & Jeffrey M. Perkel. (2023). AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think. Nature. 621(7980). 672–675. 143 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Noorden, Richard Van, et al.. (2023). What ChatGPT is and what it's not: a three minute guide. Nature.
4.
Noorden, Richard Van. (2021). Journals adopt AI to spot duplicated images in manuscripts. Nature. 601(7891). 14–15. 10 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2021). Do you obey public-access mandates? Google Scholar is watching. Nature. 6 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2021). Major UK science funder unveils strict open-access policy. Nature. 1 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2017). Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals. Nature. 541(7637). 270–270. 6 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2016). China by the numbers. Nature. 534(7608). 452–453. 19 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2015). Political science’s problem with research ethics. Nature. 3 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2014). The scientists who get credit for peer review. Nature. 20 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2014). Publicly questioned papers more likely to be retracted. Nature. 3 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2014). Particle-physics papers set free. Nature. 505(7482). 141–141. 2 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2013). nature news 実験室は、安全な職場ではない. Nature. 10(4). 32–34.
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2013). Sulphur back in vogue for batteries. Nature. 498(7455). 416–417. 124 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2013). Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing. Nature. 1 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2012). 366 days: 2012 in review. Nature. 492(7429). 324–327. 6 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2011). 365 days: 2011 in review. Nature. 480(7378). 426–429. 7 indexed citations
19.
Noorden, Richard Van & Geoff Brumfiel. (2010). Fixing a grant system in crisis. Nature. 464(7288). 474–475. 7 indexed citations
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Noorden, Richard Van. (2010). Demand for malaria drug soars. Nature. 466(7307). 672–673. 50 indexed citations

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