Egghe L, Guns R, Rousseau R. "Thoughts on Uncitedness: Nobel Laureates and Fields Medalists as Case Studies " JASIST 62(8):1637-1644 aUGUST 2011

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Address: 
leo.egghe at uhasselt.be
raf.guns at ua.ac.be
ronald.rousseau at khbo.be  
 

TITLE : Thoughts on Uncitedness: Nobel Laureates and Fields Medalists as 
Case Studies  

Author(s): Egghe, L (Egghe, Leo)1,2; Guns, R (Guns, Raf)2; Rousseau, R 
(Rousseau, Ronald)1,2,3,4  

Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 
AND TECHNOLOGY  Volume: 62   Issue: 8   Pages: 1637-1644   DOI: 
10.1002/asi.21557   Published: AUG 2011  

Times Cited: 0 (from Web of Science)  
Cited References: 11 [ view related records ]     Citation Map      

Abstract: Contrary to what one might expect, Nobel laureates and Fields 
medalists have a rather large fraction (10% or more) of uncited publications. 
This is the case for (in total) 75 examined researchers from the fields of 
mathematics (Fields medalists), physics, chemistry, and physiology or 
medicine (Nobel laureates). We study several indicators for these 
researchers, including the h-index, total number of publications, average 
number of citations per publication, the number (and fraction) of uncited 
publications, and their interrelations. The most remarkable result is a 
positive correlation between the h-index and the number of uncited articles. 
We also present a Lotkaian model, which partially explains the empirically 
found regularities.  

Document Type: Article  
Language: English  
KeyWords Plus: INDEX  

Reprint Address: Egghe, L (reprint author), UHasselt, Campus 
Diepenbeek,Agoralaan, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium  

Addresses: 
1. UHasselt, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium 
2. UA, IBW, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium 
3. KHBO Assoc KU Leuven, Fac Engn Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium 
4. Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Math, B-3000 Heverlee, Belgium  

E-mail Address: leo.egghe at uhasselt.be, 
raf.guns at ua.ac.be, 
ronald.rousseau at khbo.be  

Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 
02148, MA USA  
Web of Science Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; 
Information Science & Library Science  
Subject Category: Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science  
IDS Number: 796PM  
ISSN: 1532-2882  
 
   
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