Overview

An R and J script that plots the histogram of the first digits of all of a researcher's publication citations, and compares it to the Benford's Law log distribution.

Input Data

A csv file of publications was generated for each researcher using the Publish or Perish application, a Windows interface to Google Scholar.

Run

In R:

source('run.R')

On the command line:

Rscript run.R

or

R CMD BATCH run.R

J:

load'benford.ijs'

Output

The R script saves plot of 6 distributions as benford_citations_R.png:

The j script shows the plot in a plot window: