Runaway events dominate the heavy tail of citation distributions
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Runaway Events Dominate the Heavy Tail of Citation Distributions
Statistical distributions with heavy tails are ubiquitous in natural and social phenomena. Since the entries in heavy tail have unproportional significance, the knowledge of its exact shape is very important. Citations of scientific papers form one of the best-known heavy tail distributions. Even in this case there is a considerable debate whether citation distribution follows the log-normal or...
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Physical Journal Special Topics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1951-6355,1951-6401
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01576-4