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Hunting for supernovae articles in the universe of scientometrics

Digital Libraries 2019-12-17 v1 Information Retrieval

Abstract

This short note records an unusual situation with some Google Scholar's profiles that imply the existence of "supernovae" articles, i.e., articles whose impact -- in terms of number of citations -- in a single year gets (almost) an order of magnitude higher than the previous year and immediate drops (and remains steady) to a very low level after the next year. We analyse the issue and resolve the situation providing an answer whether there exist supernovae articles.

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@article{arxiv.1912.07090,
  title  = {Hunting for supernovae articles in the universe of scientometrics},
  author = {Dimitrios Katsaros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.07090},
  year   = {2019}
}

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2 pages, 1 figure