Attention decay in science

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 734-745

  Parolo, Pietro Della Briotta ^a   Pan, Raj Kumar ^a   Ghosh, Rumi ^b   Huberman, Bernardo A ^c   Kaski, Kimmo ^a   Fortunato, Santo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation count; Decay of attention; Time evolution

Indexed keywords

PAPER; PUBLISHING;

CITATION COUNT; DECAY OF ATTENTION; EXPONENTIAL FITTING; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; KEEP TRACK OF; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; SCIENTIFIC PAPERS; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

EID: 84942792374     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2015.07.006     Document Type: Article

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