Scientometrics
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Volume 87: Issue 3
The impact factor rank-order distribution revisited
Author:
L. Egghe Universiteit Hasselt (Uhasselt), Campus Diepenbeek Agoralaan, B-3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), Stadscampus, Venusstraat 35, B-2000, Antwerpen, Belgium

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Pages:
683–685
Online Publication Date:
25 Jan 2011
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2011
Article Category:
Letter
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0338-5
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  • Campanario, JM 2010 Distribution of changes in impact factors over time. Scientometrics 84 1 35–42 .

  • Campanario, JM 2010 Self-citations that contribute to the journal impact factor: An investment-benefit-yield analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61 12 2575–2580 .

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  • Egghe, L 2005 Power laws in the information production process: Lotkaian Informetrics Elsevier Oxford, UK.

  • Egghe, L 2009 Mathematical derivation of the impact factor distribution. Journal of Informetrics 3 4 290–295 .

  • Egghe, L., & Waltman, L. (2011). Relations between the shape of a size-frequency distribution and the shape of a rank-frequency distribution. Information Processing and Management, to appear.

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  • Guerrero-Bote, V, Zapico-Alonso, F, Espinosa-Calvo, ME, Gómez-Crisóstomo, R F De Moya-Anegón 2007 Import-export of knowledge between scientific subject categories: The iceberg hypothesis. Scientometrics 71 3 423–441 .

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  • Lancho-Barrantes, BS, Guerrero-Bote, VP, Moya-Anegón, F 2010 The iceberg hypothesis revisited. Scientometrics 85 2 443–461 .

  • Mansilla, R, Köppen, E, Cocho, G, Miramontes, P 2007 On the behavior of journal impact factor rank-order distribution. Journal of Informetrics 1 2 155–160 .

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  • Martinez-Mekler, G, Alvarez Martinez, R, Beltrán del Rio, M, Mansilla, R, Miramontes, P, Cocho, G 2009 Universality of rank-order distributions on the arts and sciences. PLoS ONE 4 3 e4791 .

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  • Waltman, L NJ van Eck 2009 Some comments on Egghe's derivation of the impact factor distribution. Journal of Informetrics 3 4 363–366 .

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