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Citation analysis of scientific categories
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Databases catalogue the corpus of research literature into scientific categories
and report classes of bibliometric data such as the number of citations to
articles, the number of authors, journals, funding agencies, institutes,
references, etc. The number of articles and citations in a category are gauges of
productivity and scientific impact but a quantitative basis to compare
researchers between categories is limited. Here, we compile a list of
bibliometric indicators for 236 science categories and citation rates of the 500
most cited articles of each category. The number of citations per paper vary by
several orders of magnitude and are highest in multidisciplinary sciences,
general internal medicine, and biochemistry and lowest in literature, poetry, and
dance. A regression model demonstrates that citation rates to the top articles in
each category increase with the square root of the number of articles in a
category and decrease proportionately with the age of the references: articles in
categories that cite recent research are also cited more frequently. The citation
rate correlates positively with the number of funding agencies that finance the
research. The category h-index correlates with the average number of cites to the
top 500 ranked articles of each category ([Formula: see text]). Furthermore, only
a few journals publish the top 500 cited articles in each category: four journals
publish 60% ([Formula: see text]) of these and ten publish 81% ([Formula: see
text]).
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