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creators_name: Petersen, Alexander M.
creators_name: Stanley, H. Eugene
creators_name: Succi, Sauro
creators_id: alexander.petersen@imtlucca.it
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title: Statistical regularities in the rank-citation profile of scientists
ispublished: pub
subjects: HA
subjects: HM
subjects: QC
subjects: Z665
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
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 ~ 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
date_type: completed
publication: (Nature) Scientific Reports
volume: 1
pagerange: 181
id_number: DOI: 10.1038/srep00181
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2045-2322
official_url: http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111205/srep00181/full/srep00181.html
citation:   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)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1071/4/rankcitiation_SciReports.pdf