The role of statistics in establishing the similarity of citation distributions in a static and a dynamic context

Javier Ruiz-Castillo

Scientometrics, 2013, vol. 96, issue 1, No 11, 173-181

Abstract: Abstract Certain key questions in Scientometrics can only be answered by following a statistical approach. This paper illustrates this point for the following question: how similar are citation distributions with a fixed, common citation window for every science in a static context, and how similar are they when the citation process of a given cohort of papers is modeled in a dynamic context?

Keywords: Citation distributions; Characteristic scores and scales; Power law distribution; Lognormal distribution; Log-location-scale family of distributions; Panel models; Multivariate models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-0954-3

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