Copied citations create renowned papers?
classification
❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn
physics.soc-ph
keywords
citationscopiedotherreferencesaccountscitationcitedcites
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Recently we discovered (cond-mat/0212043) 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.
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