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Trends in the core literature on tropical medicine: a bibliometric analysis from 1952-2002

Keiser, Jennifer ; Utzinger, Jürg

In: Scientometrics, 2005, vol. 62, no. 3, p. 351-365

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    Titre
    • Trends in the core literature on tropical medicine: a bibliometric analysis from 1952-2002
    Auteur
    • Keiser, Jennifer. Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, P. O. Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
    • Utzinger, Jürg. Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel (Switzerland)
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Classification
    • Informatique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:319857
    Summary
    Summary: We present empirical data on frequency and pattern of misprints in citations to twelve high-profile papers. We find that the distribution of misprints, ranked by frequency of their repetition, follows Zipf's law. We propose a stochastic model of citation process, which explains these findings, and leads to the conclusion that about 70-90% of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers