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Citation Race

How a cohort of same-journal, same-year papers sorts itself out over time. Live data from OpenAlex.

Journal Name or ISSN Year K (top papers) N (rows shown)

How soon are the best K papers identifiable?

Top-K recall: the share of the eventual best K papers already in the top K at each age. The clock starts the year after publication.

The race

The eventual top K

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