Evolutionary Biological Data Science Laboratory

citations per year

Properties

• Metric Type: Basic Statistic
• Considerations and Adjustments: Time
• Publication Focus: All Publications
• Citation Focus: All Citations

Description

This metric, also called the time-scaled citation index, is just the mean number of citations per year, calculated as the total number of citations of an author divided by their academic age (number of years since their first publication),

$$C^{TS}=\frac{C^P}{\text{academic age}}=\frac{C^P}{Y-Y_0+1},$$

where \(Y\) is the current year and \(Y_{0}\) is the year of their first publication.

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