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A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
Vincent Larivière, Véronique Kiermer, Catriona J. MacCallum…·Stephen Curry
The paper proposes a method to publish citation distributions underlying Journal Impact Factors, showing their skew and overlap, and advocates for transparency to reduce reliance on JIFs for evaluating individual papers.
DOI 10.1101/062109