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Some Comments on Egghe’s Derivation of the Impact Factor Distribution

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Waltman, L.R.
Eck, N.J.P. van (Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), RSM Erasmus University)
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In a recent paper, Egghe [Egghe, L. (in press). Mathematical derivation of the impact factor distribution. Journal of Informetrics] provides a mathematical analysis of the rank-order distribution of journal impact factors. We point out that Egghe’s analysis relies on an unrealistic assumption, and we show that his analysis is not in agreement with empirical data.

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Paper provided by Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. in its series Research Paper with number ERS-2009-016-LIS Revision_Date: 2009-07-29.

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