Citation Statistics From More Than a Century of Physical Review

@misc{citeulike:1093792, abstract = {We study the statistics of citations from all Physical Review journals for the 110-year period 1893 until 2003. In addition to characterizing the citation distribution and identifying publications with the highest citation impact, we investigate how citations evolve with time. There is a positive correlation between the number of citations to a paper and the average age of citations. Citations from a publication have an exponentially decaying age distribution; that is, old papers tend to not get cited. In contrast, the citations to a publication are consistent with a power-law age distribution, with an exponent close to -1 over a time range of 2 -- 20 years. We also identify a number of strongly-correlated citation bursts and other dramatic features in the time history of citations to individual publications.}, author = {Redner, S. }, citeulike-article-id = {1093792}, eprint = {physics/407137v1}, keywords = {citation, impactfactor, journal}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2007-02-07 22:00:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Citation Statistics From More Than a Century of Physical Review}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/407137v1}, year = {2004} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1093792 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1093792 TI - Citation Statistics From More Than a Century of Physical Review N2 - We study the statistics of citations from all Physical Review journals for the 110-year period 1893 until 2003. In addition to characterizing the citation distribution and identifying publications with the highest citation impact, we investigate how citations evolve with time. There is a positive correlation between the number of citations to a paper and the average age of citations. Citations from a publication have an exponentially decaying age distribution; that is, old papers tend to not get cited. In contrast, the citations to a publication are consistent with a power-law age distribution, with an exponent close to -1 over a time range of 2 -- 20 years. We also identify a number of strongly-correlated citation bursts and other dramatic features in the time history of citations to individual publications. KW - citation KW - impactfactor KW - journal AU - Redner, S PY - 2004/Oct/06/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/407137v1 ER -