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Complex Network of Scientific Papers

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We consider scientific publications as a growing complex network where papers are nodes and citations are links which connect these papers together. We explain this network approach and make special accent on the temporal aspect of citation network, namely, we focus on the growth of the number of papers, age distribution of references, and citation dynamics. We trace relation of the age distribution of references to citation dynamics and explore this reference-citation duality.

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  1. Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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Golosovsky, M. (2019). Complex Network of Scientific Papers. In: Citation Analysis and Dynamics of Citation Networks. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28169-4_2

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