Study and Analysis of Citations from Journal of the China Railway Society

Based on the data of CSCD-CD, the general cited situation of Journal of the China Railway Society (JCRS), the cited frequency and distribution of a particular article and the citing journal distribution and citing year distribution are analyzed with the bibliographical statistics method. Further studying and modeling are carried out on the year distribution of the cited articles .More precise half-life citing index as well as other quantitative indices are determined. The price index is calculated too. The influence and use of citations from the Journal and some problems such as aging are discussed.