There is considerable interest in the citation count for an author's publications. This has led to many proposals for citation indices for characterizing citation distributions. However, there is so far no tractable model to facilitate the analysis of these distributions and the design of these indices. This paper presents a simple equation for such design and analysis. The equation has three parameters that are calibrated by three geometrical characteristics of a citation distribution. Its simple form makes it tractable. To demonstrate, the equation is used to derive closed-form expressions for various citation indices, analyze the effect of time and identify individual contribution to the Hirsch index for a group.

翻译：作者出版物的引文计算令人相当感兴趣,因此提出了许多关于引文分发特征的引文索引建议,然而,迄今为止,还没有一个便于分析这些分发和设计这些索引的可移动模型,本文为这种设计和分析提供了一个简单的方程式,该方程式有三个参数,以引文分发的三种几何特点校准,其简单形式使它可移动。为了证明,该方程式被用来为各种引文分发指数得出闭式表达法,分析时间影响,并查明个人对Hirsch指数的一组贡献。