Compare journal citation distributions beta

Empirical cumulative distribution function (eCDF)

Each point represents the fraction of papers (y) that have x or fewer citations. Click on the journal names to toggle their display.

Summary statistics

for journal articles published in 2017 to 2018

JournalISSNCountMeanMedianVariance
Nature Reviews Endocrinology1759-502937764.94347496.90
NeuroImage1053-8119182452.92306899.93
ZooKeys1313-297011025.77394.40
JAMA0098-7484355441.31219896.55

Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests

Nat Rev EndocrinolNeuroImageZKJAMA
Nat Rev Endocrinol-0.5619*0.2183*0.1459*
NeuroImage0.5619*-0.719*0.557*
ZK0.2183*0.719*-0.2062*
JAMA0.1459*0.557*0.2062*-

D values for the pairwise tests are shown (the higher the number, the more different are the journals' citation distributions). An '*' indicates that the difference is significant after Bonferroni correction at an alpha value of 0.05.

Top 10 cited papers for each journal

CrossRef citation counts are provided in parentheses. OpenCitations links can be used to search for open metadata on the citing articles, if available, through the OpenCitations.net service built by researchers at the University of Bologna and University of Oxford.

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

NeuroImage

ZooKeys

JAMA

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