A method for classifying ranked observations into rank- specific categories is presented. This method is independent of any particular bibliometric law, but it has interesting proper ties for citation rates having a Paretian (otherwise known as Lotka) distnbution. The method is applied to assess the emi nence of scientific journals.
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Glänzel et al. (1988) studied this question.