Distribution of Citations in one Volume of a Journal

Antonio Protic, Biserka Runje and Josip Stepanic ()
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Antonio Protic: c/o Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture - University of Zagreb
Biserka Runje: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture - University of Zagreb

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, 2013, vol. 11, issue 2, 227-237

Abstract: Citations to published scientific articles are regularly collected and processed, bringing about the impact factor and a large number of other bibliometric indicators. We interpret the set of citations collected during fixed period as a characteristic statistical distribution of citations, argue about its properties and conjecture what statistical measures represent reliably such distributions. In that way we try to contribute to determining precisely the scope and level of suitability of impact factor if accompanied with a small set of additional indicators, all derived solely from the distribution function.

Keywords: citation; bibliometric indicator; impact factor; distribution function; sensitivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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