The half‐life of the chemical literature
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Society for Information Science
- Vol. 31 (1) , 61-63
- https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630310108
Abstract
The average citation per article in chemistry by age of citation is related to the Poisson frequency distribution. This provides a formula for calculation of a half‐life for chemistry which depends on the structure of the research front exhibited in the literature.Keywords
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