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Modeling a Century of Citation Distributions
Matthew L. Wallace, Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingras
Changes in citation distributions over 100 years can reveal much about the evolution of the scientific communities or disciplines. The prevalence of uncited papers or of highly-cit…
The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900-2007
Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras, Eric Archambault
This paper challenges recent research (Evans, 2008) reporting that the concentration of cited scientific literature increases with the online availability of articles and journals.…
Why it has become more difficult to predict Nobel Prize winners: a bibliometric analysis of Nominees and Winners of the Chemistry and Physics Prizes (1901-2007)
Yves Gingras, Matthew L. Wallace
We propose a comprehensive bibliometric study of the profile of Nobel prizewinners in chemistry and physics from 1901 to 2007, based on citation data available over the same period…
A new approach for detecting scientific specialties from raw cocitation networks
Matthew L. Wallace, Yves Gingras, Russell Duhon
We use a technique recently developed by Blondel et al. (2008) in order to detect scientific specialties from author cocitation networks. This algorithm has distinct advantages ove…