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Shooting Stars and Sleeping Beauties: the Secret Life of Citations.

Mingers, John (2007) Shooting Stars and Sleeping Beauties: the Secret Life of Citations. In: EURO XXII,, 8-11 July, Prague. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:13133)

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Abstract

This paper analyses the pattern of citations for papers published in 1990

across 6 MS/OR journals. A stochastic model is proposed which views

the generating mechanism of citations as a gamma mixture of Poisson

processes generating overall a negative binomial distribution. The model

is extended to include obsolescence, i.e., the citation rate for a paper

varies over its cited lifetime. The research then identifies specfic patterns

of behaviour such as sleeping beauties or shooting stars. Conclusions

concerning the predictability of future citations, and future research are

discussed.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Depositing User: John Mingers
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2009 13:26 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:51 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/13133 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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