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The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. However, scientific activity has moved online over the past decade. To better capture scientific impact in the digital era, a variety of new…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Johan Bollen , Herbert Van de Sompel , Aric Hagberg , Ryan Chute

Citation analysis is used extensively in the bibliometrics literature to assess the impact of individual works, researchers, institutions, and even entire fields of study. In this paper, we analyze citations in one large and influential…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Eitan Frachtenberg

We investigate how textual properties of scientific papers relate to the number of citations they receive. Our main finding is that correlations are non-linear and affect differently most-cited and typical papers. For instance, we find that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-24 Julian Sienkiewicz , Eduardo G. Altmann

Recent "science of science" research shows that scientific impact measures for journals and individual articles have quantifiable regularities across both time and discipline. However, little is known about the scientific impact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-12-06 Alexander M. Petersen , H. Eugene Stanley , Sauro Succi

Citations play an important role in researchers' careers as a key factor in evaluation of scientific impact. Many anecdotes advice authors to exploit this fact and cite prospective reviewers to try obtaining a more positive evaluation for…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ivan Stelmakh , Charvi Rastogi , Ryan Liu , Shuchi Chawla , Federico Echenique , Nihar B. Shah

Given a large pool of unlabelled data and a smaller amount of labels, prediction-powered inference (PPI) leverages machine learning predictions to increase the statistical efficiency of confidence interval procedures based solely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-27 Valentin Kilian , Stefano Cortinovis , François Caron

In this paper, we propose a measure to assess scientific impact that discounts self-citations and does not require any prior knowledge on the their distribution among publications. This index can be applied to both researchers and journals.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Emilio Ferrara , Alfonso E. Romero

Predicting the popularity of scientific publications has attracted many attentions from various disciplines. In this paper, we focus on the popularity prediction problem of scientific papers, and propose an age-based diffusion (AD) model to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Yanbo Zhou , Qu Li , Xuhua Yang , Hongbing cheng

Citation numbers and other quantities derived from bibliographic databases are becoming standard tools for the assessment of productivity and impact of research activities. Though widely used, still their statistical properties have not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-17 Filippo Radicchi , Claudio Castellano

Measuring the impact of a publication in a fair way is a significant challenge in bibliometrics, as it must not introduce biases between fields and should enable comparison of the impact of publications from different years. In this paper,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Emilio Gómez-Déniz , Pablo Dorta-González

Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bibliometric and scientometric literature. This paper provides an in-depth review…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Ludo Waltman

As academic research becomes increasingly diverse, traditional literature evaluation methods face significant limitations,particularly in capturing the complexity of academic dissemination and the multidimensional impacts of literature. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mingyue Kong , Yinglong Zhang , Likun Sheng , Kaifeng Hong

This review summarizes papers which analyze impact of self-citation on research evaluation. We introduce a generalized definition of self-citation and its variants: author, institutional, country, journal, discipline, publisher…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Vladimir Pislyakov

The impact and originality are two critical dimensions for evaluating scientific publications, measured by citation and disruption metrics respectively. Despite the extensive effort made to understand the statistical properties and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-05-08 An Zeng , Ying Fan , Zengru Di , Yougui Wang , Shlomo Havlin

In recent years scholars have built maps of science by connecting the academic fields that cite each other, are cited together, or that cite a similar literature. But since scholars cannot always publish in the fields they cite, or that…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Miguel R. Guevara , Dominik Hartmann , Manuel Aristarán , Marcelo Mendoza , César A. Hidalgo

Evaluative bibliometrics compares the citation impact of researchers, research groups and institutions with each other across time scales and disciplines. Both factors - discipline and period - have an influence on the citation count which…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Lutz Bornmann , Werner Marx

Citation recommendation is an important task to assist scholars in finding candidate literature to cite. Traditional studies focus on static models of recommending citations, which do not explicitly distinguish differences between papers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Shutian Ma , Heng Zhang , Chengzhi Zhang , Xiaozhong Liu

We propose the conditional predictive impact (CPI), a consistent and unbiased estimator of the association between one or several features and a given outcome, conditional on a reduced feature set. Building on the knockoff framework of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-14 David S. Watson , Marvin N. Wright

Considering the rapidly increasing number of academic papers, searching for and citing appropriate references has become a non-trial task during the wiring of papers. Recommending a handful of candidate papers to a manuscript before…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yang Zhang , Qiang Ma

Accurately evaluating scholarly influence is essential for fair academic assessment, yet traditional bibliometric indicators - dominated by publication and citation counts - often favor hyperprolific authors over those with deeper,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Lu Li , Yun Wan , Feng Xiao