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The invariant distribution of references in scientific articles
2015
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
The organization of scientific papers typically follows a standardized pattern, the well--known IMRaD structure (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion). Using the full--text of 45,000 papers published in the PLOS series of journals as a case study, this paper investigates, from the viewpoint of bibliometrics, how references are distributed along the structure of scientific papers, as well as the age of these cited references. It shows that, once the sections of articles are realigned to
doi:10.1002/asi.23367
fatcat:ezbcut77lrc25hxx2vqgu7ia24