relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1071/
title: Statistical regularities in the rank-citation profile of scientists
creator: Petersen, Alexander M.
creator: Stanley, H. Eugene
creator: Succi, Sauro
subject: HA Statistics
subject: HM Sociology
subject: QC Physics
subject: Z665 Library Science. Information Science
description: 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 ~ h_i^\beta_i . Such statistical regularities in the input-output patterns of scientists can be used as benchmarks for theoretical models of career progress.
date: 2011
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc_nd
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1071/4/rankcitiation_SciReports.pdf
identifier:   Petersen, Alexander M. and Stanley, H. Eugene and Succi, Sauro  Statistical regularities in the rank-citation profile of scientists.  (Nature) Scientific Reports, 1.  p. 181.  ISSN 2045-2322      (2011)  
relation: http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111205/srep00181/full/srep00181.html
relation: DOI: 10.1038/srep00181