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There are many factors that affect the probability of being uncited during the first years after publication. In this study, we analyze three of these factors for journals, conference proceedings and book series: the field (in 316 subject…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Pablo Dorta-González , Rafael Suárez-Vega , María Isabel Dorta-González

The citations process for scientific papers has been studied extensively. But while the citations accrued by authors are the sum of the citations of their papers, translating the dynamics of citation accumulation from the paper to the…

The impact and originality are two critical dimensions for evaluating scientific publications, measured by citation and disruption metrics respectively. Despite the extensive effort made to understand the statistical properties and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-05-08 An Zeng , Ying Fan , Zengru Di , Yougui Wang , Shlomo Havlin

Modeling distributions of citations to scientific papers is crucial for understanding how science develops. However, there is a considerable empirical controversy on which statistical model fits the citation distributions best. This paper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Michal Brzezinski

Citations measure the importance of a publication, and may serve as a proxy for its popularity and quality of its contents. Here we study the distributions of citations to publications from individual academic institutions for a single…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-13 Arnab Chatterjee , Asim Ghosh , Bikas K Chakrabarti

Gradually Truncated Power law distribution - Citation of scientists Hari M. Gupta, Jose R. Campanha and Bianca A. Ferrari Unesp - Physics Dpto. - Rio Claro Sao Paulo - Brazil Abstract The number of times, a scientist is cited in other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hari M. Gupta , Jose R. Campanha , Bianca A. Ferrari

Although statistical models fit many citation data sets reasonably well with the best fitting models being the hooked power law and discretised lognormal distribution, the fits are rarely close. One possible reason is that there might be…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Mike Thelwall

We develop a model for the distribution of scientific citations. The model involves a dual mechanism: in the direct mechanism, the author of a new paper finds an old paper A and cites it. In the indirect mechanism, the author of a new paper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-08 G. J. Peterson , S. Pressé , K. A. Dill

We study citation dynamics of the Physics, Economics, and Mathematics papers published in 1984 and focus on the fraction of uncited papers in these three collections. Our model of citation dynamics, which considers citation process as an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-25 Michael Golosovsky

We introduce and analyse a simple probabilistic model of article production and citation behavior that explicitly assumes that there is no decline in citability of a given article over time. It makes predictions about the number and age of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Fatemeh Ghaffari , Mark C. Wilson

In this paper we show that the dramatic increase in the number of research articles indexed in the Web of Science database impacts the commonly observed distributions of citations within these articles. First, we document that the growing…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Lovro Šubelj , Dalibor Fiala

We analyze time evolution of statistical distributions of citations to scientific papers published in one year. While these distributions can be fitted by a power-law dependence we find that they are nonstationary and the exponent of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-13 Michael Golosovsky

This paper examines how the role of cited papers evolves over time by analyzing nearly 900 highly cited papers (HCPs) published between 2000 and 2016 and the full text of over 220,000 papers citing them. We investigate multiple citation…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Gege Lin , Nees Jan van Eck , Haiyan Hou , Zhigang Hu

In this work we have studied the research activity for countries of Europe, Latin America and Africa for all sciences between 1945 and November 2008. All the data are captured from the Web of Science database during this period. The…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2008-12-30 A. D. Anastasiadis , Marcelo P. de Albuquerque , Marcio P. de Albuquerque , Diogo B. Mussi

The citations to a set of academic articles are typically unevenly shared, with many articles attracting few citations and few attracting many. It is important to know more precisely how citations are distributed in order to help…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Mike Thelwall , Paul Wilson

Progress in science has advanced the development of human society across history, with dramatic revolutions shaped by information theory, genetic cloning, and artificial intelligence, among the many scientific achievements produced in the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Yuxiao Dong , Hao Ma , Zhihong Shen , Kuansan Wang

In an article written five years ago [arXiv:0809.0522], we described a method for predicting which scientific papers will be highly cited in the future, even if they are currently not highly cited. Applying the method to real citation data…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-02-06 M. E. J. Newman

This work explores the distribution of citations for the publications of top scientists. A first objective is to find out whether the 80-20 Pareto rule applies, that is if 80% of the citations to a top scientist's work concern 20% of their…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Giovanni Abramo , Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo , Anastasiia Soldatenkova

Citation networks have been widely used to study the evolution of science through the lenses of the underlying patterns of knowledge flows among academic papers, authors, research sub-fields, and scientific journals. Here we focus on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-12 Valerio Ciotti , Moreno Bonaventura , Vincenzo Nicosia , Pietro Panzarasa , Vito Latora

We analyze the citation time-series of manuscripts in three different fields of science; physics, social science and technology. The evolution of the time-series of the yearly number of citations, namely the citation trajectories, diffuse…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Maryam Zamani , Erez Aghion , Peter Pollner , Tamas Vicsek , Holger Kantz