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Prediction of Citation Dynamics of Individual Papers

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We apply stochastic model of citation dynamics of individual papers developed in Chap. 3 to forecast citation career of individual papers. We focus not only on the estimate of the future citations of a paper but on the probabilistic margins of such estimate as well.

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Golosovsky, M. (2019). Prediction of Citation Dynamics of Individual Papers. In: Citation Analysis and Dynamics of Citation Networks. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28169-4_7

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