Characterizing and Modeling Citation Dynamics

Citation distributions are crucial for the analysis and modeling of the activity of scientists. We investigated bibliometric data of papers published in journals of the American Physical Society, searching for the type of function which best describes the observed citation distributions. We used the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eom, Young-Ho, Fortunato, Santo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178574/