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The advancement of science is inherently dependent on the recombination of existing knowledge, and innovative research typically relies on the atypical recombination of established knoweldge bases. This study introduces a Knowledge…

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We present the Influence Flower, a new visual metaphor for the influence profile of academic entities, including people, projects, institutions, conferences, and journals. While many tools quantify influence, we aim to expose the flow of…

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While scholarly citations are pivotal for assessing academic impact, they often reflect systemic biases beyond research quality. This study examines a critical yet underexplored driver of citation disparities: authors' structural positions…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Renlong Jie , Longfeng Zhao , Chen Chu , Danyang Jia , Zhen Wang

Scholarly communications have been rapidly integrated into digitised and networked open ecosystems, where preprint servers have played a pivotal role in accelerating the knowledge transfer processes. However, quantitative evidence is scarce…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Keisuke Okamura

Extracting entities and relations for types of interest from text is important for understanding massive text corpora. Traditionally, systems of entity relation extraction have relied on human-annotated corpora for training and adopted an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Xiang Ren , Zeqiu Wu , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Tarek F. Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

Multiple organisational affiliations are an increasingly common feature of research systems, yet their implications for organisational performance had received limited systematic attention. We developed a scalable, network-based analytical…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Christoph Schlager , Lutz Bornmann , Gerald Schweiger

The semantics used for particular terms in an academic field organically evolve over time. Tracking this evolution through inspection of published literature has either been from the perspective of Linguistic scholars or has concentrated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hyung Wook Choi , Mat Kelly

Using time series of US patents per million inhabitants, knowledge-generating cycles can be distinguished. These cycles partly coincide with Kondratieff long waves. The changes in the slopes between them indicate discontinuities in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Inga Ivanova , Loet Leydesdorff

This paper describes a new kind of knowledge representation and mining system which we are calling the Semantic Knowledge Graph. At its heart, the Semantic Knowledge Graph leverages an inverted index, along with a complementary uninverted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Trey Grainger , Khalifeh AlJadda , Mohammed Korayem , Andries Smith

Citation networks have been widely used to study the evolution of science through the lenses of the underlying patterns of knowledge flows among academic papers, authors, research sub-fields, and scientific journals. Here we focus on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-12 Valerio Ciotti , Moreno Bonaventura , Vincenzo Nicosia , Pietro Panzarasa , Vito Latora

The scientific community of researchers in a research specialty is an important unit of analysis for understanding the field specific shaping of scientific communication practices. These scientific communities are, however, a challenging…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Theresa Velden , Carl Lagoze

This paper discovers patterns of knowledge dissemination among scientific disciplines. While the transfer of knowledge is largely unobservable, citations from one discipline to another have been proven to be an effective proxy to study…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Erjia Yan

Citation count is a popular index for assessing scientific papers. However, it depends on not only the quality of a paper but also various factors, such as conventionality, team size, and gender. Here, we examine the extent to which the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Munjung Kim , Jisung Yoon , Woo-Sung Jung , Hyunuk Kim

Structural inequalities persist in society, conferring systematic advantages to some people at the expense of others, for example, by giving them substantially more influence and opportunities. Using bibliometric data about authors of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-04 Buddhika Nettasinghe , Nazanin Alipourfard , Vikram Krishnamurthy , Kristina Lerman

It is widely recognized that collaboration between the public and private research sectors should be stimulated and supported, as a means of favoring innovation and regional development. This work takes a bibliometric approach, based on…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Giovanni Abramo , Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo , Marco Solazzi

Academic publications have been evaluated in terms of their impact on research communities based on many metrics, such as the number of citations. On the other hand, the impact of academic publications on industry has been rarely studied.…

Scientists and inventors set the direction of their work amidst an evolving landscape of questions, opportunities, and challenges. This paper introduces a measurement framework to quantify how far researchers move from their existing…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ryan Hill , Yian Yin , Carolyn Stein , Xizhao Wang , Dashun Wang , Benjamin F. Jones

Knowledge graphs in manufacturing and production aim to make production lines more efficient and flexible with higher quality output. This makes knowledge graphs attractive for companies to reach Industry 4.0 goals. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Georg Buchgeher , David Gabauer , Jorge Martinez-Gil , Lisa Ehrlinger

Academic citation and social attention measure different dimensions of the impact of research results. Both measures do not correlate with each other, and they are influenced by many factors. Among these factors are the field of research,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Pablo Dorta-González , María Isabel Dorta-González

Faculty hiring shapes the flow of ideas, resources, and opportunities in academia, influencing not only individual career trajectories but also broader patterns of institutional prestige and scientific progress. While traditional studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Samantha Dies , David Liu , Tina Eliassi-Rad