Note on a strongly unimodal bibliometric size frequency distribution

✍ Scribed by Sichel, H. S.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 456 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199205)43:4<299::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

The number of references at the end of scientific research papers form a strongly unimodal frequency distribution.

It is shown that the generalized inverse Gaussian-Poisson distribution fits such unimodal data extremely well.