Go to Scopus, and search for any journal you’d like. Here, I’ll illustrate this process by a search for the journal Psychological Science, which has ISSN number 0956-7976. You can search for any range of years, but Scopus will only allow you to export 2000 cases at once. I limited this search to issues from 2010-2015.Due to copyright reasons, I cannot share the Scopus data I downloaded.
Then, select all results, and export ‘all available information’ as a .csv file, as illustrated in the animation below.
Now you have the data, plotting the citations is straightforward, and can be done with the code below (the plots in this blog posts look a bit different then the output in the code, but the data is the same). For example, here is the distribution of citations for Psychological Science for the years 2010-2015. The tail is so long, that I cut off the x-axis at 200 citations. Three (most notably, Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2011, with 662 citations) papers are cited more than 200 times.
The data is clearly skewed, and obviously papers are cited more often, as the years go by. The …read more
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