Citation count distributions for large monodisciplinary journals

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 863-874

  Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Citation distributions; Discretised lognormal distribution; Hooked power law; Lognormal distribution; Shifted power law

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATIONS; CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; FITTING STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER-LAW; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 84978863408     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2016.07.006     Document Type: Article

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