Stochastic modeling of citation slips
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v2 Physics and Society
Abstract
We present empirical data on frequency and pattern of misprints in citations to twelve high-profile papers. We find that the distribution of misprints, ranked by frequency of their repetition, follows Zipf's law. We propose a stochastic model of citation process, which explains these findings, and leads to the conclusion that 70-90% of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0401529,
title = {Stochastic modeling of citation slips},
author = {M. V. Simkin and V. P. Roychowdhury},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0401529},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Some corrections and additions. To appear in Scientometrics