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Publication Date: 2022-Dec
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The Power Law and Emerging and Senior Scholar Publication Patterns
Bray, Nathaniel J.; Gilstrap, Donald L.; Scalfani, Vincent F.
Innovative Higher Education, v47 n6 p989-1005 Dec 2022
Research has shown that linear relationships do not adequately represent publication and citation measurement behavior. They are much more curvilinear than that. However, we tend to try to look to citation counts linearly to draw outcomes about productivity. This study examines bibliometric and altmetric measures for emerging and senior scholars to see if power law behavior helps explain patterns for both of these groups. Findings indicating the presence of the power law for both groups suggests the majority of work receives few references while a select few works receive the majority of references. Alternative best fit transformations of the data are also detailed.
Descriptors: Citations (References), Bibliometrics, Behavior, Power Structure, Scholarship, Publications
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Language: English
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