项目作者: hamed

项目描述 :
Impact Factor and the power-low tail of citations
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项目地址: git://github.com/hamed/ImpactFactor.git
创建时间: 2016-07-20T18:43:47Z
项目社区:https://github.com/hamed/ImpactFactor

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Impact Factor and the power-low tail of citations

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I pulled the data of A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions and produced probability density function using geometric bins. The result is:

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They have power-law tails, so I belive the suggestion of Time to remodel the journal impact factor is a good quick fix.
If we replace mean with median in the definition of impact factor, I think it has a better interpretation. If you publilsh an article in Nature, there is 50% chance that it get more than 24 citation in two years time.

For more details about math and methods, please see the source file.