Universality of citation distributions: Toward an objective measure of scientific impact
@article{Radicchi2008UniversalityOC, title={Universality of citation distributions: Toward an objective measure of scientific impact}, author={Filippo Radicchi and S. Fortunato and C. Castellano}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, year={2008}, volume={105}, pages={17268 - 17272} }
We study the distributions of citations received by a single publication within several disciplines, spanning broad areas of science. [...] Key Result These findings provide a strong validation of c(f) as an unbiased indicator for citation performance across disciplines and years. Based on this indicator, we introduce a generalization of the h index suitable for comparing scientists working in different fields.Expand
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