Individual and field citation distributions in 29 broad scientific fields

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Highlights：

• We investigate individual citation distributions for very productive authors, or 5.2% of the population accounting for 38% of all articles.

• In spite of very large within-field differences, the degree of skewness of individual citation distributions is very similar across fields.

• The average individual skewness, plus the differences in individual productivity and mean citation rates determine the macro-level skewness.

摘要

•We investigate individual citation distributions for very productive authors, or 5.2% of the population accounting for 38% of all articles.•In spite of very large within-field differences, the degree of skewness of individual citation distributions is very similar across fields.•The average individual skewness, plus the differences in individual productivity and mean citation rates determine the macro-level skewness.

论文关键词：Citation distributions,Individual authors,Scientific fields,Skewness of science

论文评审过程：Received 8 March 2018, Revised 3 July 2018, Accepted 3 July 2018, Available online 30 July 2018, Version of Record 30 July 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.07.002