Citation Statistics from 110 Years of <i>Physical Review</i>
Physics TodayPublished 1 June 2005Open access
Sidney Redner
Citations427
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.48
SNIP0.62
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Abstract
Publicly available data reveal long-term systematic features about citation statistics and how papers are referenced. The data also tell fascinating citation histories of individual articles.
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