Albarrán, Pedro; Crespo, Juan A.; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper studies evidence from Thomson Scientific about the citation process of 3.7 million articles published in the period 1998-2002 in 219 Web of Science categories, or sub-fields. Reference and citation distributions have very different characteristics across sub-fields. However, when...