Ruiz-Castillo, Javier - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 291-310
analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper … begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in the evaluation of research. Next, a summary of results about the … distributions share the same broad shape, are highly skewed, and are often crowned by a power law. In light of this evidence, a …