Rescaling citations of publications in physics

被引：75

作者：

Radicchi, Filippo ^{[1
]}

Castellano, Claudio ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Northwestern Univ, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

[2] CNR, ISC, I-00185 Rome, Italy

[3] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 2011年 / 83卷 / 04期

关键词：

RELATIVE INDICATORS; STATISTICS;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevE.83.046116

中图分类号：

O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];

学科分类号：

070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;

摘要：

We analyze the citation distributions of all papers published in Physical Review journals between 1985 and 2009. The average number of citations received by papers published in a given year and in a given field is computed. Large variations are found, showing that it is not fair to compare citation numbers across fields and years. However, when a rescaling procedure by the average is used, it is possible to compare impartially articles across years and fields. We make the rescaling factors available for use by the readers. We also show that rescaling citation numbers by the number of publication authors has strong effects and should therefore be taken into account when assessing the bibliometric performance of researchers.

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