  The presented work proposes a novel approach to model the citation rate. The
paper begins with a brief introduction into informetrics studies and highlights
drawbacks of the contemporary approaches to modeling the citation process as a
product of social interactions. An alternative modeling framework based on
results obtained in cognitive psychology is then introduced and applied in an
experiment to investigate properties of the citation process, as they are
revealed by a large collection of citation statistics. Major research findings
are discussed, and a summary is given.
