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Theory of Aces: Fame by chance or merit?
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We study empirically how fame of WWI fighter-pilot aces, measured in numbers of web pages mentioning them, is related to their achievement or merit, measured in numbers of opponent…
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Copied citations create renowned papers?
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
Recently we discovered (cond-mat/0212043) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in whic…