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A Markov-switching approach to the study of citations in academic journals
Fecha
2020-11Registro en:
Delbianco, Fernando Andrés; Fioriti, Andres; Hernández Chanto, Allan; Tohmé, Fernando Abel; A Markov-switching approach to the study of citations in academic journals; Elsevier; Journal of Informetrics; 14; 4; 11-2020; 1-16; 101081
1751-1577
1875-5879
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Delbianco, Fernando Andrés
Fioriti, Andres
Hernández Chanto, Allan
Tohmé, Fernando Abel
Resumen
In this paper, we introduce a Markovian approach to study the stability and growth of citations in academic journals by featuring a regime-switching analysis. We characterize the regime structure exhibited by the series of citations available in the Web of Science database and determine the series' transition probabilities across regimes. Our main result shows that for most of the journals studied, the series of citations exhibit a stable growth, remaining majorly in a dominant regime identified as one of low or high number of citations.