First Author Advantage: Citation Labeling in Research
Digital Libraries
2013-10-09 v1
Abstract
Citations among research papers, and the networks they form, are the primary object of study in scientometrics. The act of making a citation reflects the citer's knowledge of the related literature, and of the work being cited. We aim to gain insight into this process by studying citation keys: user-chosen labels to identify a cited work. Our main observation is that the first listed author is disproportionately represented in such labels, implying a strong mental bias towards the first author.
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@article{arxiv.1310.1968,
title = {First Author Advantage: Citation Labeling in Research},
author = {Graham Cormode and S. Muthukrishnan and Jinyun Yan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1968},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Computational Scientometrics: Theory and Applications at The 22nd CIKM 2013