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Publication Date: 1980-Jan
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The Half-Life of the Chemical Literature.
Brown, Pauline
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v31 n1 p61-63 Jan 1980
The average citation per article in chemistry by age of citation is related to the Poisson frequency distribution. This provides a formula for calculation of a half-life for chemistry which depends on the structure of the research front exhibited in the literature. (Author/FM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Citations (References), Mathematical Models, Scholarly Journals, Tables (Data), Use Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
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Language: English
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