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On the growth of citations of publication output of individual authors

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Dependence of citations L(t) at time t on the publication duration t of 10 arbitrarily selected Polish professors is analyzed using equations based on power law and exponential growth and on progressive nucleation mechanism for overall crystallization in fixed volume. The former two approaches are well known in the bibliometric literature, but the last approach is new for the analysis of growth of citations and other related phenomena. It was found that: (1) power-law relation and exponential growth are relatively inadequate to analyze the data of all authors due to large scatter in the L(t) data of various authors, (2) in view of poor fit at low or high values of t, the exponential growth relation is worse than the power-law relation, and (3) the progressive nucleation mechanism describes the data reasonably well and gives information on the processes of sources of citations and the growth of theses citation sources.

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  • Sangwal, K., 2011. "On the growth of citations of publication output of individual authors," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 5(4), pages 554-564.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:infome:v:5:y:2011:i:4:p:554-564
    DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.04.007
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