4 papers
Does Publicity in the Science Press Drive Citations?
Manolis Antonoyiannakis
We study how publicity in the science press, in the form of highlighting, affects the citations of research papers. Using multiple linear regression, we quantify the citation advan…
Impact Factor volatility to a single paper: A comprehensive analysis
Manolis Antonoyiannakis
We study how a single paper affects the Impact Factor (IF) by analyzing data from 3,088,511 papers published in 11639 journals in the 2017 Journal Citation Reports of Clarivate Ana…
How a Single Paper Affects the Impact Factor: Implications for Scholarly Publishing
Manolis Antonoyiannakis
Because the Impact Factor (IF) is an average quantity and most journals are small, IFs are volatile. We study how a single paper affects the IF using data from 11639 journals in th…
Impact Factors and the Central Limit Theorem: Why Citation Averages Are Scale Dependent
Manolis Antonoyiannakis
Citation averages, and Impact Factors (IFs) in particular, are sensitive to sample size. We apply the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) to IFs to understand their scale-dependent behavio…