Citation count distributions for large monodisciplinary journals

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Highlights:

• The discretised lognormal fits better than the hooked power law for relatively pure citation distributions.

• The discretised lognormal fits better than the hooked power law for large monodisciplinary journals.

• Both the discretised lognormal and the hooked power law have imperfect shapes for citation distributions.

摘要

•The discretised lognormal fits better than the hooked power law for relatively pure citation distributions.•The discretised lognormal fits better than the hooked power law for large monodisciplinary journals.•Both the discretised lognormal and the hooked power law have imperfect shapes for citation distributions.

论文关键词:Citation distributions,Discretised lognormal distribution,Lognormal distribution,Hooked power law,Citation analysis,Shifted power law

论文评审过程:Received 23 February 2016, Revised 14 July 2016, Accepted 14 July 2016, Available online 25 July 2016, Version of Record 25 July 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.07.006