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Title: | Thoughts on uncitedness: Nobel laureates and Field medalists as case studies | Authors: | EGGHE, Leo Guns, Raf ROUSSEAU, Ronald |
Issue Date: | 2011 | Source: | JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63 (2), p. 429-429 | Abstract: | Contrary to what one might expect, Nobel laureates and Fields medalists have a rather large fraction (10% or more) of uncited publications. This is the case for (in total) 75 examined researchers from the fields of mathematics (Fields medalists), physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine (Nobel laureates). We study several indicators for these researchers, including the h-index, total number of publications, average number of citations per publication, the number (and fraction) of uncited publications, and their interrelations. The most remarkable result is a positive correlation between the h-index and the number of uncited articles. We also present a Lotkaian model, which partially explains the empirically found regularities. | Keywords: | uncitedness; Nobel Prize; Fields Medal | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/13690 | ISSN: | 1532-2882 | DOI: | 10.1002/asi.21665 | ISI #: | 000302157900021 | Rights: | © 2011 ASIS&T | Category: | M | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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