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"year" column is not accurate
Noted by @dragomirradev
The "year" column is based on the earliest year in the citation count histogram, which in fact is not the earliest year in terms of publications.
For example:
But see:
One reasonable hypothesis is that the histogram is capped at 20 years... but here's a counterexample:
No idea what's going on.
From a crawling perspective, the histogram is easy to get. Getting actual earliest requires sort pubs by time and then "scrolling".
One explanation for this discrepancy would be the histogram captures when citations occur and not the citations to the papers published in the year. For example, if a paper is published in the year 2010 and receives a citation in the year 2016, in the histogram, this citation is added to the year 2016.
As for the crawling issue, I have resolved it in a python scraper. I will link to it in a subsequent comment.
