A mathematical theory of citing

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1661-1673

  Simkin, Mikhail V ^a   Roychowdhury, Vwani P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EMPIRICAL CITATION DATA; MATHEMATICAL THEORY; POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM MODELS;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE;

EID: 34548562537     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20653     Document Type: Article

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