Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Journal Impact Factor Dynamics Based on Submission and Citation Rules

Figure 2

Quality distribution (0–10) of all papers with expectation being 4.2 or 2.3. The number of journals is 10, the number of issues of a journal published per year is 12, the number of papers published per issue is 10, the time length is 13 years, and the total number of all papers is 10  12  10  13 = 15,600. Red curve denotes Gaussian distribution.

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