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@article{citeulike:497540, abstract = {Recently we discovered (<a href="/abs/cond-mat/0212043">cond-mat/0212043</a>) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them,and also copies a quarter of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed citation distribution. Simple mathematical probability, not genius, can explain why some papers are cited a lot more than the other.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Simkin, M. V. and Roychowdhury, V. P.}, citeulike-article-id = {497540}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305150}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0305150}, day = {8}, eprint = {cond-mat/0305150}, keywords = {bliography, buzz, cib, citation, citation-analysis, citations, doctors, evolution, fun, humour, impact-factor, index, influence, key, key-thought-leader, keyopinionleader, kol, leader, medical, network, networking, networks, opinion, opinionleader, otl, persuasion, physicians, physicsandsociety, professionals, psychology, publishing, research, science, scientific, social, social-network, social-networking, social-networks, socialnetworkanalysis, socialnetworks, statistics, status, thoughtleader}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2007-03-27 15:22:12}, priority = {2}, title = {Copied citations create renowned papers?}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305150}, year = {2003} }

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