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Citation Statistics from 110 Years of Physical Review

Physics and Society 2009-11-11 v2 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Abstract

Publicly available data reveal long-term systematic features about citation statistics and how papers are referenced. The data also tell fascinating citation histories of individual articles.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0506056,
  title  = {Citation Statistics from 110 Years of Physical Review},
  author = {S. Redner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0506056},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

This is esssentially identical to the article that appeared in the June 2005 issue of Physics Today