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Elsevier, Journal of Informetrics, 4(3), p. 363-366

DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2009.05.004

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Some Comments on Egghe’s Derivation of the Impact Factor Distribution

Journal article published in 2009 by Ludo Waltman, L. Waltman (Ludo), Nees Jan Van Eck ORCID, N. J. P. van Eck (Nees Jan)
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abstractIn a recent paper, Egghe [Egghe, L. (in press). Mathematical derivation of the impact factor distribution. Journal of Informetrics] provides a mathematical analysis of the rank-order distribution of journal impact factors. We point out that Egghe’s analysis relies on an unrealistic assumption, and we show that his analysis is not in agreement with empirical data.text