For regression analyses the best option is to use ordinary least squares regression applied to the natural logarithm of citation counts plus one, especially for sets of younger articles, because of the increased precision of the parameters.
The hooked power law fits better in two thirds of the subject/year combinations tested for journal articles that are at least three years old, including most medical, life and natural sciences, and for virtually all subject areas for younger articles.
For example, older articles tend to have more citations than younger articles simply because there has been more time to cite them.
Kittle the younger's article ("Manila Rules") is this issue's Memoir, an essay about an after-graduation year off that commenced with loafing around home in Greenwich and wound up, somehow, with him being introduced in the center ring at the world cockfighting championships in Manila.
By Martha Banning Thomas The New Yorker, January 4 , 1930P. 78 The strong die young, View Article By Alan Burdick By Charles Bethea By Larissa MacFarquhar By Phil Klay.
The New Yorker, July 26 , 1976P. 28 Song Of The Phantom Girl Of Belo Horizonte Song For A Young View Article By Miranda Carter By Jia Tolentino By George Packer By Doreen St. Félix.
This may be the final blow to Mr McCain, who could have used their support to offset his opponent's lead among the young (see article).
By Winifred Welles The New Yorker, March 12 , 1938P. 73 When I was young, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Zoë Heller By Malcolm Gladwell.
By Lysander Kemp The New Yorker, September 18 , 1954P. 83 They sprawled about a driftwood fire, the young View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell By David Remnick.
By Horace Gregory The New Yorker, September 12 , 1942P. 19 "Eat of my cake, eat," cried the young, View Article By Phil Klay By John Cassidy By Troy Patterson By Amy Davidson Sorkin.
By Lysander Kemp The New Yorker, September 18 , 1954P. 83 They sprawled about a driftwood fire, the young View Article By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb.
