• The impact factor’s Matthew Effect : a natural experiment in bibliometrics 

    Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Association for information science and technology, 2009-10-08)
    Since the publication of Robert K. Merton’s theory of cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence at the level of papers, individual researchers, institutions, or countries. However, ...