A mathematical theory of citing
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Mikhail V. Simkin; Vwani P. Roychowdhury
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Recently we proposed a model in which when a scientist writes a manuscript, he picks up several random papers, cites them, and also copies a fraction of their references. The model was stimulated by our finding that a majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of referen