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citations per year

This metric, also called the time-scaled citation index, is just the mean number of citations per year, calculated as the total number of citations of an author divided by their academic age (number of years since their first publication),

$$C^{TS}=\frac{C^P}{\text{academic age}}=\frac{C^P}{Y-Y_0+1},$$

where \(Y\) is the current year and \(Y_{0}\) is the year of their first publication.

History

YearCTS
19972.0000
19987.0000
199914.6667
200019.5000
200128.2000
200242.3333
200356.7143
200479.3750
2005103.5556
2006134.3000
2007162.7273
2008187.4167
2009211.3077
2010238.9286
2011270.0667
2012296.6250
2013324.0588
2014345.7222
2015365.6316
2016383.8000
2017396.0476
2018408.7727
2019419.6957
2020430.2500
2021442.0400
2022452.1154
2023458.4444
2024445.5714