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  • Modeling a century of citation distributions 

    Wallace, Matthew L.; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Elsevier, 2009-05-06)
    The prevalence of uncited papers or of highly cited papers, with respect to the bulk of publications, provides important clues as to the dynamics of scientific research. Using 25 million papers and 600 million references from the Web of Science over ...
  • A small world of citations? : the influence of collaboration networks on citation practices 

    Wallace, Matthew L.; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Public library of science, 2012-03-07)
    This paper examines the proximity of authors to those they cite using degrees of separation in a co-author network, essentially using collaboration networks to expand on the notion of self-citations. While the proportion of direct selfcitations ...