期刊名称：Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal
印刷版ISSN：1334-4676
出版年度：2013
卷号：11
期号：2
页码：227-237
出版社：Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu
摘要：Citations to published scientific articles are regularly collected and processed, bringing about the impact factor and a large number of other bibliometric indicators. We interpret the set of citations collected during fixed period as a characteristic statistical distribution of citations, argue about its properties and conjecture what statistical measures represent reliably such distributions. In that way we try to contribute to determining precisely the scope and level of suitability of impact factor if accompanied with a small set of additional indicators, all derived solely from the distribution function.
关键词：citation; bibliometric indicator; impact factor; distribution function; sensitivity
