Publication year: 2012 Source: Journal of Informetrics, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 66-79 José María Sarabia, Faustino Prieto, Carmen Trueba The study of the informetric distributions, such as distributions of citations and impact factors is one of the most relevant topics in the current informetric research. Several laws for modeling impact factor based on ranks have been proposed, including Zipf, Lavalette and the two-exponent law proposed by
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Modeling the probabilistic distribution of the impact factor