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Peer reviewedBurrell, Quentin L. – Information Processing & Management, 2003
Extends connections between retrospective citation age studies and reliability theory by considering the failure rate function from reliability, re-interpreted as the age-specific citation rate (ASCR). This is linked to earlier studies of retrospective citation distributions by Egghe and Ravichandra Rao who introduced a function claimed to…
Descriptors: Age, Citations (References), Data Analysis, Failure
