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Do Not Use I.F. for Scientific Value Estimation
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: Received: 21 April 2022 / Approved: 21 April 2022 / Online: 21 April 2022 (09:37:01 CEST)
How to cite: Klebanov, L.; Kuvaeva, Y.; Volkovich, Z. (. Do Not Use I.F. for Scientific Value Estimation. Preprints 2022, 2022040200. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202204.0200.v1 Klebanov, L.; Kuvaeva, Y.; Volkovich, Z. (. Do Not Use I.F. for Scientific Value Estimation. Preprints 2022, 2022040200. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202204.0200.v1
Abstract
A toy model for the distribution of the impact factor (IF) of a journal is proposed. The model demonstrates the presence of a heavy tail for the IF distribution, which occurs due to some random non-scientific circumstances. Therefore, the use of IF as an indicator of the quality of scientific papers seems to be inadequate.
Keywords
citation distribution; impact factor distribution; essential randomness; Sibuya distribution.
Subject
Social Sciences, Library and Information Sciences
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