Citation Count Modelling: The Role of Statistical Distributions

Author(s)	Dr. Gautam Mukhopadhyay
Country	India
Abstract	The statistical distributions develop more accurate models of research impact, such as citation counts and h-index. The statistical models play a crucial role in scientometric analysis and citation mapping. The distributions help identify typical citation pattern, outliers, anomalies.These enable comparison across fields, authors, and papers. The probability distributions aid in predicting future citation counts and emerging research trends as well as areas of research. These indicate papers with immoderately high impact and metrics of research quality, such as citation-based metrics. By applying statistical distributions, scientometric analysis can improve accuracy, reveal underlying citation behaviour and how citations accumulate over time, trends, predict research phenomena. Advance theory development helps contribute to progress of theories of research behaviour and impact. This paper intends to gain insights into research impact, quality and citation flow that support the advancement of scientific research. Main objectives of this study are to understand and describe the patterns of citation counts and to predict the number of citations a paper or author will receive.
Keywords	Citation counts, Statistical distributions, Skewness, Variability, Mapping
Field	Sociology
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2025
Published On	2025-03-24
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i02.39740
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g89v58

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