Fig. 2.

Quantitative patterns in the growth and size-distribution of the publication portfolio for scientists from 3 disciplines. (Left) $c_{i,p}\left(t\right)$ for each author’s most cited papers (colored according to net citations in 2010) along with $C_i\left(t\right)\sim t^{{\zeta }_i}$ (dashed black curve). (Right) The evolution of each author’s rank-citation profile using snapshots taken at 5-y intervals. The darkest blue data points represent the most recent $c_i\left(r,t\right)$, and the subset of red data points indicate the logarithmically spaced data values used to fit the empirical data to our benchmark DGBD rank-citation distribution model (4) (solid black curve; SI Appendix). The intersection of $c_i\left(r,t\right)$ with the dashed black line corresponds to the author’s h-index $h_i\left(t\right)$.