New study: "Are #citations becoming more concentrated in a small number of articles? Or have recent geopolitical and technical changes in science led to more decentralized distributions?" Answer: It's the second, thanks to "a decline in uncited articles, which, in turn, can be attributed to the growing significance of #Asia and #Europe."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09911
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09911
Uncited articles and their effect on the concentration of citations
Empirical evidence demonstrates that citations received by scholarly publications follow a pattern of preferential attachment, resulting in a power-law distribution.arXiv.org
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