Are the discretised lognormal and hooked power law distributions plausible for citation data?

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Highlights：

• Neither the discretised lognormal nor the hooked power law are plausible for citation counts from a single Scopus category and year.

• Parameter variations in fitted citation distributions may be due to mixed sub-fields within single subject areas.

• Large sample sizes and simplifying assumptions are needed to test whether a distribution is mixed.

摘要

•Neither the discretised lognormal nor the hooked power law are plausible for citation counts from a single Scopus category and year.•Parameter variations in fitted citation distributions may be due to mixed sub-fields within single subject areas.•Large sample sizes and simplifying assumptions are needed to test whether a distribution is mixed.

论文关键词：Citation distributions,Hooked power law,Discretised lognormal distribution

论文评审过程：Received 9 January 2016, Revised 12 March 2016, Accepted 12 March 2016, Available online 7 April 2016, Version of Record 7 April 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.03.001