论文信息 - Association between journal citation distribution and impact factor: a novel application of the Gini coefficient.

Association between journal citation distribution and impact factor: a novel application of the Gini coefficient.

It is unknown whether some cardiovascular journals achieve high impact factors (IFs) due to citations from the entire spectrum of their papers or from the publication of a few highly-cited papers, such as clinical practice guidelines. To address this question, we quantified the variation in

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