Impact Factor volatility to a single paper: A comprehensive analysis

Here are the data for papers [1,2]. The 1st excel sheet ("theory") has data for Figures 1, 2 of [1]. The 2nd sheet ("JCR data") has data for Figures 3, 4, 5, 6 of [1], and Figure 1 of [2]. A. Data in the "theory" sheet: 2nd row: Citation count, c, of a single paper published by a journal of Impact Factor f1=10 and biennial size N1. We have chosen c to range from 0 to 1000 in our data. 2nd column: biennial size N1 of journal. We have chosen N1 to range from 10 to 2500 in our data. The data in the cells from C3 to EC283 in the sheet are calculations of the volatility, Δf(c), as defined in Eq. (4) of [1]. B. Data in the "JCR data" sheet: The publication and citation data below are from each journal's individual Journal Citation Report for 2017. Impact Factor. These are data from the 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Journal biennial size, N2Y. This is the number of articles & reviews published in 2015-2016 by each journal. Citation average, f. This is the average number of citations received in 2017 by the articles & reviews published in 2015-2016. Volatility, Δf(c*): This is defined as f - f* (see below for f*) Relative volatility, Δfr(c*): This is defined as (f - f*)/f* (see below for f*) Top-cited paper, c*: This is the citation count of the top-cited paper in each journal, in the year 2017. Citation average excluding top-cited paper, f*: This is the average number of citations received in 2017 by the articles & reviews published in 2015-2016, once we exclude the top-cited paper (article or review). Acknowledgment This work uses data, accessed through Columbia University, from the Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports (2017) with explicit consent from Clarivate Analytics. References [1] M. Antonoyiannakis, Impact Factor volatility to a single paper: A comprehensive analysis, Quantitative Science Studies (2020, accepted), https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02533 [2] M. Antonoyiannakis, How a single paper affects the Impact Factor: Implications for Scholarly Publishing, Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the International Society on Scientometrics & Informetrics, vol. II, 2306-2313 (2019), https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02660