%0 Generic %1 citeulike:497540 %A Simkin, M. V. %A Roychowdhury, V. P. %D 2003 %K bliography buzz cib citation citation-analysis citations doctors evolution fun humour impact-factor index influence key key-thought-leader keyopinionleader kol leader medical network networking networks no-tag opinion opinionleader otl persuasion physicians physicsandsociety professionals psychology publishing research science scientific social social-network social-networking social-networks socialnetworkanalysis socialnetworks statistics status thoughtleader %T Copied citations create renowned papers? %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305150 %X Recently we discovered (<a href="/abs/cond-mat/0212043">cond-mat/0212043</a>) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them,and also copies a quarter of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed citation distribution. Simple mathematical probability, not genius, can explain why some papers are cited a lot more than the other.

@misc{citeulike:497540, abstract = {Recently we discovered (<a href="/abs/cond-mat/0212043">cond-mat/0212043</a>) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them,and also copies a quarter of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed citation distribution. Simple mathematical probability, not genius, can explain why some papers are cited a lot more than the other.}, added-at = {2007-08-18T13:22:24.000+0200}, author = {Simkin, M. V. and Roychowdhury, V. P.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/233018d8dc25d037f3aa0644d74cf01cb/a_olympia}, citeulike-article-id = {497540}, description = {citeulike}, eprint = {cond-mat/0305150}, interhash = {8a844a84c906846bdc6883324bf81053}, intrahash = {33018d8dc25d037f3aa0644d74cf01cb}, keywords = {bliography buzz cib citation citation-analysis citations doctors evolution fun humour impact-factor index influence key key-thought-leader keyopinionleader kol leader medical network networking networks no-tag opinion opinionleader otl persuasion physicians physicsandsociety professionals psychology publishing research science scientific social social-network social-networking social-networks socialnetworkanalysis socialnetworks statistics status thoughtleader}, month = May, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2007-08-18T13:22:29.000+0200}, title = {Copied citations create renowned papers?}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305150}, year = 2003 }