@inproceedings{39af39cf73894250a7516a19acd9e917,
title = "Publication Month Bias Evolution Patterns of Highly Cited Papers in Different Disciplines",
abstract = "The publication date and chronological arrangement lead to early published papers having more time and opportunity to be read and cited compared with the later publication papers. To explore the publication month bias phenomenon of highly cited papers published in different disciplines, we selected highly cited papers from all ESI disciplines published between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2020. The results indicate that the 'head-start' effect of highly cited papers is a widespread phenomenon in all ESI disciplines, and the probability published in each month decreases linearly with the increase of months. We adopt the Least square method to quantify the month bias degree in each ESI discipline and all fitting curves are significant under the test level \$\textbackslash{}alpha=0.01\$ except Multidisciplinary. We also discover that the shorter the citation window length, the more obvious the 'head-start' effect, and it cannot be removed even if the citation window length of up to 11 years.",
keywords = "Citation window length, Highly cited papers, Least square method, Month bias, Publication date",
author = "Pan Zhang and Sijie Han and Zhiqiang Cai",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.; 2021 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2021 ; Conference date: 13-12-2021 Through 16-12-2021",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1109/IEEM50564.2021.9672986",
language = "英语",
series = "2021 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2021",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1062--1066",
booktitle = "2021 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2021",
}