Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2011-03-14
Scientific Reports 1, 181 (2011)
Physics
Physics and Society
29 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables, Submitted; Modifications in V2 in response to referee comments
Scientific paper
10.1038/srep00181
Recent "science of science" research shows that scientific impact measures for journals and individual articles have quantifiable regularities across both time and discipline. However, little is known about the scientific impact distribution at the scale of an individual scientist. We analyze the aggregate scientific production and impact of individual careers using the rank-citation profile c_{i}(r) of 200 distinguished professors and 100 assistant professors. For the entire range of paper rank r, we fit each c_{i}(r) to a common distribution function that is parameterized by two scaling exponents. Since two scientists with equivalent Hirsch h-index can have significantly different c_{i}(r) profiles, our results demonstrate the utility of the \beta_{i} scaling parameter in conjunction with h_{i} for quantifying individual publication impact. We show that the total number of citations C_{i} tallied from a scientist's N_{i} papers scales as C_{i} \sim h_{i}^{1+\beta_{i}}. Such statistical regularities in the input-output patterns of scientists can be used as benchmarks for theoretical models of career progress.
Petersen Alexander M.
Stanley Eugene H.
Succi Sauro
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