Can we predict citation counts of environmental modelling papers? Fourteen bibliographic and categorical variables predict less than 30% of the variability in citation counts

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 75, Issue , 2016, Pages 94-104

  Robson, Barbara J ^a   Mousquès, Aurélie ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation count; Equations; Informetrics; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION COUNT; EQUATIONS; INFORMETRICS; SCIENTOMETRICS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

BIBLIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EQUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84944909188     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.10.007     Document Type: Article

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