Citation Statistics from 110 Years of Physical Review

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.

This is esssentially identical to the article that appeared in the June 2005 issue of Physics Today

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