Letter to the editor: comments on the paper of Gagolewski et al.: Ockham's index of citation impact

In a recent paper in Scientometrics, Gagolewski et al. (2022) elaborated on a 3DSI model (3 dimensions of scientific impact) using a triplet of primary indicators (N, the number of papers for an author's productivity, C, the number of citations for overall impact, and rho for the shape of the citation distribution). The 3DSI model is an agent-based model (Siudem et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci 117:13896-13900, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001064117), which assumes that citations are distributed according to a mixture of the rich-get-richer rule and sheer chance.

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The study introduces an agent-based model based on a 3DSI model of scientific impact, which assumes that citations follow a mixture distribution of the rich-get-richer rule and sheer chance.