Citation measures and impact within astronomy
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
By utilising the inbuilt citation counts from NASA's astrophysics data system (ADS) I derive how many citations refereed articles receive as a function of time since publication. After five years, one paper in a hundred has accumulated 91 or more citations, a figure which rises to 145 citations after ten years. By adding up the number of citations active researchers have received over the past five years I have estimated their relative impact upon the field both for raw citations and citations weighted by the number of authors per paper.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401507,
title = {Citation measures and impact within astronomy},
author = {Frazer Pearce},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401507},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, submitted to A&G (in November)