RT Generic
T1 References made and citations received by scientific articles
A1 Albarrán, Pedro
A1 Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB This paper studies massive evidence about references made and citations received after a five-yearcitation window by 3.7 million articles published in 1998-2002 in 22 scientific fields. We find thatthe distributions of references made and citations received share a number of basic features acrosssciences. Reference distributions are rather skewed to the right, while citation distributions areeven more highly skewed: the mean is about 20 percentage points to the right of the median, andarticles with a remarkable or outstanding number of citations represent about 9% of the total.Moreover, the existence of a power law representing the upper tail of citation distributions cannotbe rejected in 17 fields whose articles represent 74.7% of the total. Contrary to the evidence inother contexts, the value of the scale parameter is above 3.5 in 13 of the 17 cases. Finally, powerlaws are typically small but capture a considerable proportion of the total citations received
SN 2340-5031
YR 2009
FD 2009-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6374
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6374
LA eng
NO European Community's Seventh Framework Program
NO The authors acknowledge financial support from the Spanish MEC, Grants SEJ2007-67436,SEJ2007-63098 and SEJ2006-05710. The database of Thomson Scientific (formerly Thomson-ISI;Institute for Scientific Information) has been acquired with funds from Santander UniversitiesGlobal Division of Banco Santander. This paper is part of the SCIFI-GLOW Collaborative Projectsupported by the European Commission’s Seventh Research Framework Programme, Contract no.SSH7-CT-2008-217436.
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