Trends in the core literature on tropical medicine: a bibliometric analysis from 1952-2002

Jennifer Keiser and Jürg Utzinger
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Jennifer Keiser: Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute
Jürg Utzinger: Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute

Scientometrics, 2005, vol. 62, issue 3, No 5, 365 pages

Abstract: Summary 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 about 70-90% of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers.

Date: 2005
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