@article{eprints1071,
          author = {Alexander M. Petersen and H. Eugene Stanley and Sauro Succi},
            year = {2011},
         journal = {(Nature) Scientific Reports},
           title = {Statistical regularities in the rank-citation profile of scientists},
           pages = {181},
          volume = {1},
        abstract = {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 production and impact
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. Since two scientists with
equivalent Hirsch h-index can have significantly different c\_i(r) profiles, our results demonstrate the utility of
the bi scaling parameter in conjunction with hi for quantifying individual publication impact. We show that
the total number of citations C tallied from a scientist?s N\_i papers scales as C\_i {\texttt{\char126}} h\_i{\^{ }}{$\backslash$}beta\_i . Such statistical regularities in the input-output patterns of scientists can be used as benchmarks for theoretical models of career progress.},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1071/}
}