Identifying the Key Reference of a Scientific Publication
| Autor: | An Zeng, Haochuan Cui, Ying Fan, Zengru Di |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Measure (data warehouse)
021103 operations research Computer science media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Data science Preference Control and Systems Engineering 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Key (cryptography) 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Quality (business) Relevance (information retrieval) Metric (unit) Citation GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g. dictionaries encyclopedias glossaries) Information Systems media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering. 29:429-439 |
| ISSN: | 1861-9576 1004-3756 |
| Popis: | The most fundamental way to measure the impact of a scientific publication is using the number of citations it received. Though citation count and its variants are widely adopted, they have been pointed out to be poor proxies for a paper’s quality because a citation might result from different reasons. It is thus crucial to quantify the true relevance of the cited papers to the citing paper. There are already some efforts in the literature devoted to addressing this issue, yet a well-accepted method is still lacking, possibly due to the absence of standard ground truth data for comparing different methods. In this paper, we propose a simple method using a local diffusion process on citation networks for identifying the key references for each scientific publication. The effectiveness and of the method are validated in a subset of the American Physical Society data in which the key references are mentioned in the abstract of papers. We further define an effective citation metric for quantifying the actual impact of each paper and its evolution. The effective citation metric additionally reveals the citation preference of research at journal and country levels. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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