Towards a simple mathematical theory of citation distributions.
Abstract
The paper is written with the assumption that the purpose of a mathematical theory of citation is to explain bibliometric regularities at the level of mathematical formalism. A mathematical formalism is proposed for the appearance of power law distributions in social citation systems. The principal contributions of this paper are an axiomatic characterization of citation distributions in terms of the Ekeland variational principle and a...
Paper Details
Title
Towards a simple mathematical theory of citation distributions.
Published Date
Nov 5, 2015
Journal
Volume
4
Issue
1
Pages
677 - 677
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