Hunting for supernovae articles in the universe of scientometrics

12/15/2019

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by   Dimitrios Katsaros, et al.

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This short note records an unusual situation with some Google Scholar's profiles that imply the existence of "supernovae" articles, i.e., articles whose impact – in terms of number of citations – in a single year gets (almost) an order of magnitude higher than the previous year and immediate drops (and remains steady) to a very low level after the next year. We analyse the issue and resolve the situation providing an answer whether there exist supernovae articles.