Copied citations create renowned papers?

Details Copied citations create renowned papers? Copied citations create renowned papers?

2003-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305150v1

Annals Improb. Res. vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 24-27, 2005

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

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Recently we discovered (cond-mat/0212043) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them,and also copies a quarter of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed citation distribution. Simple mathematical probability, not genius, can explain why some papers are cited a lot more than the other.

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