Testing for universality of Mendeley readership distributions
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Highlights：
• Mendeley readership distributions seem to share similar shapes across fields.
• The CSS analysis confirm the similarity of shapes of readership distributions.
• This implies the possibility for readerships to be rescaled to a universal form.
• The rescaling appears effective for recent publications also.
• Nonetheless, right tails often deviates from the common and universal form.
摘要
•Mendeley readership distributions seem to share similar shapes across fields.•The CSS analysis confirm the similarity of shapes of readership distributions.•This implies the possibility for readerships to be rescaled to a universal form.•The rescaling appears effective for recent publications also.•Nonetheless, right tails often deviates from the common and universal form.
论文关键词：Bibliometrics,Impact,Altmetrics,Mendeley readership,CSS
论文评审过程：Received 24 July 2018, Revised 25 March 2019, Accepted 25 March 2019, Available online 8 April 2019, Version of Record 8 April 2019.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.03.011
