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Impact Factor and the power-low tail of citations

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I pulled the data of A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions and produced probability density function using geometric bins. The result is:

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They have power-law tails, so I belive the suggestion of Time to remodel the journal impact factor is a good quick fix. If we replace mean with median in the definition of impact factor, I think it has a better interpretation. If you publilsh an article in Nature, there is 50% chance that it get more than 24 citation in two years time.

For more details about math and methods, please see the source file.

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