2004/10/31 by Igor Podlubny, Igor Podlubný · 1 citation
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #cs.GL #math.ST #msc:00A99 #physics.soc-ph #scientometrics and bibliometrics research #stat.TH
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s11192-005-0240-0
published as Scientometrics, Vol.64, no.1, July 2005, pp.95-99. Journal ISSN: 0138-9130 (Paper) 1588-2861 (Online) · 5 pages, 1 table
arxiv created 2005/02/21 · openalex publication_date 2005/05/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Citation distributions for 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2001, which were published in the 2004 report of the National Science Foundation, USA, are analyzed. It is shown that the ratio of the total number of citations of any two broad fields of science remains close to constant over the analyzed years. Based on this observation, normalization of total numbers of citations with respect to the number of citations in mathematics is suggested as a tool for comparing scientific impact expressed by the number of citations in different fields of science.