New Year’s resolutions to push you past Doug Altman’s 1 060 928 citations

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Source: BMJ

Original: http://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2550.short?rss=1...

Published: 2025-12-17T02:55:54-08:00

The article offers New Year's resolutions inspired by the career of statistician Doug Altman, who has achieved more than 1,060,928 citations in Google Scholar as of April 2025. Altman is one of three academics with more than 1,000,000 citations, along with Michel Foucault and Yoshua Bengio. He was an internationally recognized statistician, led global initiatives to improve medical research standards, and served as senior statistical advisor to the Doug2 organization. The authors drew on 26 years of working with him, an unfinished biography and correspondence with his wife Sue. Based on this, they characterized his philosophy as "ten tips for citation success". The goal is to help researchers achieve a high number of citations for their publications.