Citations and the Zipf-Mandelbrot's law

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1999-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9901035v2

Complex Syst. 11 (1997) 487-499

Physics

Physics and Society

20 pages, 10 figures, important reference and note were added

Scientific paper

A curious observation was made that the rank statistics of scientific citation numbers follows Zipf-Mandelbrot's law. The same pow-like behavior is exhibited by some simple random citation models. The observed regularity indicates not so much the peculiar character of the underlying (complex) process, but more likely, than it is usually assumed, its more stochastic nature.

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