Copied citations create renowned papers?

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dc.creatorSimkin, M. V.
dc.creatorRoychowdhury, V. P.
dc.date2003-05-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:51:13Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:51:13Z
dc.descriptionRecently we discovered (cond-mat/0212043) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them,and also copies a quarter of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed citation distribution. Simple mathematical probability, not genius, can explain why some papers are cited a lot more than the other.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305150
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305150
dc.identifierAnnals Improb. Res. vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 24-27, 2005
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/21374
dc.subjectDisordered Systems and Neural Networks
dc.subjectPhysics and Society
dc.titleCopied citations create renowned papers?
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