tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post8851333539407367870..comments2024-03-28T17:13:01.117+10:00Comments on Condensed concepts: Papers make the impact not the journalsRoss H. McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09950455939572097456noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post-78819583109325012742014-07-15T09:07:12.348+10:002014-07-15T09:07:12.348+10:00Thanks for the very helpful comment. I found the r...Thanks for the very helpful comment. I found the relevant editorial including the distribution curve<br /><br />http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v10/n9/full/nmat3114.html<br /><br />Here is an extract:<br /><br />"in the skewed distribution of a journal's received citations, which are known to approximately follow a Pareto probability distribution — also known in bibliometrics as Bradford's law3. The Pareto distribution is a power-law function characterized by a long tail — in this context a long tail of highly cited papers "<br /><br />I recommend it to readers.Ross H. McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09950455939572097456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post-8318995429296471972014-07-15T02:07:00.552+10:002014-07-15T02:07:00.552+10:00Nature Materials published their citation distribu...Nature Materials published their citation distribution a couple years ago. It was Poisson distributed, so I downloaded the data and fit it to a decaying exponential, which gave me a mean of 34 and an error of 2. I think impact factors should be thus reported to the nearest integer with the error reported as well.soggybombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01362994998301052314noreply@blogger.com