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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…

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In the last two decades, scholars have designed various types of bibliographic related indicators to identify breakthrough-class academic achievements. In this study, we take a further step to look at properties of the promising disruptive…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Guoqiang Liang , Yi Jiang , Haiyan Hou

The scientific impact of academic papers is influenced by intricate factors such as dynamic popularity and inherent contribution. Existing models typically rely on static graphs for citation count estimation, failing to differentiate among…

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Measurement is a complicated but very necessary task. Many indices have been created in an effort to define the quality of knowledge produced but they have attracted strong criticism, having become synonymous with individualism, competition…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Ari Melo Mariano , Maíra Rocha Santos

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

An important issue in the field of academic measurement is how to evaluate academic influence scientifically and comprehensively, which can help government and research organizations better allocate academic resources and recruit…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Yun Wan , Feng Xiao , Lu Li , Zhenghao Zhong

Park et al. [1] reported a decline in the disruptiveness of scientific and technological knowledge over time. Their main finding is based on the computation of CD indices, a measure of disruption in citation networks [2], across almost 45…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Vincent Holst , Andres Algaba , Floriano Tori , Sylvia Wenmackers , Vincent Ginis

Dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques are often characterized by whether they preserve global, high-level structures in the data or local, neighborhood structures. This distinction matters in visualization: global methods can obscure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kaviru Gunaratne , Stephen Kobourov , Jacob Miller

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, product innovation thrives on replacing outdated technologies with groundbreaking ones or through the ingenious recombination of existing technologies. Our study embarks on a revolutionary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-23 Youwei He , Jeong-Dong Lee

The ongoing growth in the volume of scientific literature available today precludes researchers from efficiently discerning the relevant from irrelevant content. Researchers are constantly interested in impactful papers, authors and venues…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Neil Shah , Yang Song

The citation impact of a scientific publication is usually seen as a one-dimensional concept. We introduce a multi-dimensional framework for characterizing the citation impact of a publication. In addition to the level of citation impact,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yi Bu , Ludo Waltman , Yong Huang

Scientific innovation increasingly depends on collaboration, yet the organizational structure that fosters breakthrough ideas remains poorly understood. Existing metrics - such as team size or compositional diversity - capture readily…

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This short paper introduces the u-index, a simple and objective metric to evaluate the impact and relevance of academic research output, as a possible alternative to widespread metrics such as the h-index or the i10-index. The proposed…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Roberto Dillon

Cook's distance [Technometrics 19 (1977) 15-18] is one of the most important diagnostic tools for detecting influential individual or subsets of observations in linear regression for cross-sectional data. However, for many complex data…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-06-08 Hongtu Zhu , Joseph G. Ibrahim , Hyunsoon Cho

Despite a long history of use of citation count as a measure to assess the impact or influence of a scientific paper, the evolution of follow-up work inspired by the paper and their interactions through citation links have rarely been…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Dattatreya Mohapatra , Abhishek Maiti , Sumit Bhatia , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Allocation of research funding, as well as promotion and tenure decisions, are increasingly made using indicators and impact factors drawn from citations to published work. A debate among scientometricians about proper normalization of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Caroline S. Wagner , Loet Leydesdorff

We introduce the QIC-Index, a novel metric to address the failure of publication-centric metrics to value research data sharing. The QIC-Index quantifies the impact of individual data objects by calculating a score based on their Quality…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Martin G. Frasch

The scientific community increasingly relies on open data sharing, yet existing metrics inadequately capture the true impact of datasets as research outputs. Traditional measures, such as the h-index, focus on publications and citations but…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Smitha Muthya Sudheendra , Zhongxing Zhang , Wenwen Cao , Jisu Huh , Jaideep Srivastava

Despite extensive research on scientific disruption, two questions remain: why disruption has declined amid growing knowledge, and why disruptive work receives fewer and delayed citations. One way to address these questions is to identify…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-11 Xiaoyao Yu , Talal Rahwan , Tao Jia

Are existing ways of measuring scientific quality reflecting disadvantages of not being part of giant collaborations? How could possible discrimination be avoided? We propose indices defined for each discipline (subfield) and which count…

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