Citation statistics from more than a century of physical review (2004)
| Venue: | Physical Review. Phys. Rev. E |
| Citations: | 17 - 0 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Redner04citationstatistics,
author = {S. Redner},
title = {Citation statistics from more than a century of physical review},
institution = {Physical Review. Phys. Rev. E},
year = {2004}
}
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Abstract
We study the statistics of citations from all Physical Review journals for the 110-year period 1893 until 2003. In addition to characterizing the citation distribution and identifying publications with the highest citation impact, we investigate how citations evolve with time. There is a positive correlation between the number of citations to a paper and the average age of citations. Citations from a publication have an exponentially decaying age distribution; that is, old papers tend to not get cited. In contrast, the citations to a publication are consistent with a power-law age distribution, with an exponent close to −1 over a time range of 2 – 20 years. We also identify a number of stronglycorrelated citation bursts and other dramatic features in the time history of citations to individual publications. PACS numbers: 01.30.Kj, 01.65.+g, 01.90.+g, 89.65.Ef I.
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