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The stochastic model proposed recently by the author to describe the citation process in the presence of obsolescence is further investigated to illustrate the nth-citation distribution and the distribution of the total number of citations. The particular case where the latent rate has a gamma distribution is analysed in detail and is shown to be able to agree well with empirical data.
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Burrell, Q.L. The nth-citation distribution and obsolescence. Scientometrics 53, 309–323 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014816911511
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