Distributions for cited articles from individual subjects and years

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 824-839

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Wilson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Citation distribution; Hooked power law; Lognormal distribution; Power law

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; CODES (SYMBOLS);

CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION DATA; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMAL CHOICE; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; POWER-LAW; RESEARCH EVALUATION; HOOKED POWER LAW; POWER LAW;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84906833461     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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