Other studies approach the topic from a macro perspective, analysing scientific organizations and the reciprocal influence they have with wider society, or uncovering the invisible colleges that become apparent through the analysis of co-authorship and citations' patterns.
Therefore, our analysis may not have captured the full variability of citations patterns of a completely mature set of publications.
A retraction wouldn't change the quality of these already published works, so if the citation pattern subsequently changed, it would suggest that the retraction affected the researcher's reputation.
Figure 5 shows the temporal citation pattern for the 7,581 papers, separated by the publication year.
The PubMed citation pattern for MRSA appears in a qualitative way most similar to Type I emerging infections.
We wondered whether we could identify the incidence pattern of MRSA during the past 50 years by comparing its citation pattern to those of other pathogens.
Thereafter, the relative number of citations plateaued for the next decade, following a similar time course in its citation pattern to that of HIV, even as the number of reported U.S. cases of Lyme disease continued to rise steadily from 8257 in 1993 to 22,014 in 2012 [ 4].
The pattern of reported WNV infection incidence, in contrast to the citation pattern for WNV and in contrast to both the incidence of Lyme disease and mortality from HIV in the U.S., appears to be cyclical, with increasingly higher annual incidence peaks recorded in 2003, 2006 and 2012 [ 4].
We identify these employing a statistical regularity in citation patterns.
Is there quantifiable regularity and predictability in citation patterns?
Our method relates firms' market return on equity to information about patent citation patterns.
