On the inequality of citation counts of all publications of individual authors

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Highlights:

• For most authors, a great proportion of their citations comes from a small percentage of their publications, and such patterns are slightly more obvious for highly cited physicists.

• The publications with more citations occur randomly in an author's academic career.

• The robustness tests indicate that the aforementioned results are stable.

摘要

•For most authors, a great proportion of their citations comes from a small percentage of their publications, and such patterns are slightly more obvious for highly cited physicists.•The publications with more citations occur randomly in an author's academic career.•The robustness tests indicate that the aforementioned results are stable.

论文关键词:Citation inequality,Diversity,Gini,H-Index,Research evaluation,Physics

论文评审过程:Received 29 September 2020, Revised 2 August 2021, Accepted 6 August 2021, Available online 19 August 2021, Version of Record 19 August 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101203