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On the categorization of scientific citation profiles in computer science

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A new dynamic growth model reveals how citation networks evolve over time, pointing the way toward reformulated scientometrics.

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                  Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 9
                  September 2015
                  119 pages
                  ISSN:0001-0782
                  EISSN:1557-7317
                  DOI:10.1145/2817191
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                  • Moshe Y. Vardi
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