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Recency predicts bursts in the evolution of author citations

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Author(s):
Silva, Filipi Nascimento [1] ; Tandon, Aditya [2] ; Amancio, Diego Raphael [3] ; Flammini, Alessandro [1, 2] ; Menczer, Filippo [1, 2] ; Milojevic, Stasa [2] ; Fortunato, Santo [1, 2]
Total Authors: 7
Affiliation:
[1] Indiana Univ, Network Sci Inst, Bloomington, IN 47405 - USA
[2] Indiana Univ, Ctr Complex Networks & Syst Res, Luddy Sch Informat Comp & Engn, Bloomington, IN 47405 - USA
[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Math & Comp Sci, Sao Carlos - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 3
Document type: Journal article
Source: QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES; v. 1, n. 3, p. 1298-1308, SUM 2020.
Web of Science Citations: 1
Abstract

The citations process for scientific papers has been studied extensively. But while the citations accrued by authors are the sum of the citations of their papers, translating the dynamics of citation accumulation from the paper to the author level is not trivial. Here we conduct a systematic study of the evolution of author citations, and in particular their bursty dynamics. We find empirical evidence of a correlation between the number of citations most recently accrued by an author and the number of citations they receive in the future. Using a simple model where the probability for an author to receive new citations depends only on the number of citations collected in the previous 12-24 months, we are able to reproduce both the citation and burst size distributions of authors across multiple decades. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 17/13464-6 - Modelling citation and information graphs: a complex network approach
Grantee:Diego Raphael Amancio
Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
FAPESP's process: 15/08003-4 - Complex network approach to e-Science and dynamic datasets
Grantee:Filipi Nascimento Silva
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
FAPESP's process: 17/09280-7 - Probing the structure and dynamics of information networks
Grantee:Filipi Nascimento Silva
Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor