How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution
How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution
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DOI：
10.1007/s100510050359
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发表时间：
1998-07-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Redner, S
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作者：
Redner, S
引用分布的数值数据进行了检查：（一）论文发表在1981年的期刊，这是由科学信息研究所编目（783，339篇论文）和（ii）20年的出版物在物理评论D：卷。11-50（24，296篇论文）。给定论文的引用数量与其引用排名的Zipf图似乎与领先排名论文的幂律依赖性一致，指数接近-1/2。这反过来又表明，具有x次引用的论文数量N（x）具有类似于x（-alpha）的大x幂律衰减N（x）; alpha近似于3。
Numerical data for the distribution of citations are examined for: (i) papers published in 1981 in journals which are catalogued by the Institute for Scientific Information (783,339 papers) and (ii) 20 years of publications in Physical Review D: vols. 11-50 (24,296 papers). A Zipf plot of the number of citations to a given paper versus its citation rank appears to be consistent with a power-law dependence for leading rank papers, with exponent close to -1/2. This, in turn, suggests that the number of papers with x citations, N(x), has a large-x power law decay N(x) similar to x(-alpha); with alpha approximate to 3.