The role of statistics in establishing the similarity of citation distributions in a static and a dynamic context Articles uri icon

authors

  • RUIZ-CASTILLO UCELAY, JAVIER

publication date

  • July 2013

start page

  • 173

end page

  • 181

issue

  • 1

volume

  • 96

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0138-9130

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1588-2861

abstract

  • Certain key questions in Scientometrics can only be answered by following a statistical approach. This paper illustrates this point for the following question: how similar are citation distributions with a fixed, common citation window for every science in a static context, and how similar are they when the citation process of a given cohort of papers is modeled in a dynamic context?.

keywords

  • citation distributions; characteristic scores and scales; power law distribution; lognormal distribution; log-location-scale family of distributions; panel models; multivariate models