caa a22 4500 445348976 CHVBK 20180317142838.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0387-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0387-9 Benford's law and citations, articles and impact factors of scientific journals [Elektronische Daten] [Juan Campanario, María Coslado] First order digits in data sets of natural and social data often follow a distribution called Benford's law. We studied the number of articles published, citations received and impact factors of all journals indexed in the Science Citation Index from 1998 to 2007. We tested their compliance with Benford's law. Citations data followed Benford's law remarkably well in all years studied. However, for the data on the numbers of articles, the differences between the values predicted by Benford's law and the observed values were always statistically significant. This was also the case for most data for impact factors. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Benford law nationallicence Citations nationallicence Articles nationallicence Impact factor nationallicence Campanario Juan Departamento de Física, Universidad de Alcalá, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain aut Coslado María Departamento de Gestión de la Información Científica Integrada, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, C/Pedro Teixeira, 8 (planta 2), 28020, Madrid, Spain aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/2(2011-08-01), 421-432 0138-9130 88:2<421 2011 88 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0387-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0387-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Campanario Juan Departamento de Física, Universidad de Alcalá, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Coslado María Departamento de Gestión de la Información Científica Integrada, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, C/Pedro Teixeira, 8 (planta 2), 28020, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/2(2011-08-01), 421-432 0138-9130 88:2<421 2011 88 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer