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Measuring the impact of scientific articles is important for evaluating the research output of individual scientists, academic institutions and journals. While citations are raw data for constructing impact measures, there exist biases and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-24 Linda S. L. Tan , Aik Hui Chan , Tian Zheng

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

The increasing availability of curated citation data provides a wealth of resources for analyzing and understanding the intellectual influence of scientific publications. In the field of statistics, current studies of citation data have…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Lijia Wang , Xin Tong , Y. X. Rachel Wang

Definitions are the foundation for any scientific work, but with a significant increase in publication numbers, gathering definitions relevant to any keyword has become challenging. We therefore introduce SciDef, an LLM-based pipeline for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Filip Kučera , Christoph Mandl , Isao Echizen , Radu Timofte , Timo Spinde

Citation count of a paper is a commonly used proxy for evaluating the significance of a paper in the scientific community. Yet citation measures are widely criticized for failing to accurately reflect the true impact of a paper. Thus, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ishan Kumar , Zhijing Jin , Ehsan Mokhtarian , Siyuan Guo , Yuen Chen , Mrinmaya Sachan , Bernhard Schölkopf

We performed a citation analysis on the Web of Science publications consisting of more than 63 million articles and 1.45 billion citations on 254 subjects from 1981 to 2020. We proposed the Article's Scientific Prestige (ASP) metric and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Ying Chen , Thorsten Koch , Nazgul Zakiyeva , Kailiang Liu , Zhitong Xu , Chun-houh Chen , Junji Nakano , Keisuke Honda

As researchers increasingly adopt LLMs as writing assistants, generating high-quality research paper introductions remains both challenging and essential. We introduce Scientific Introduction Generation (SciIG), a task that evaluates LLMs'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Krishna Garg , Firoz Shaik , Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Cornelia Caragea

Can AI systems trained on the scientific record up to a fixed point in time forecast the scientific advances that follow? Such a capability could help researchers identify collaborators and impactful research directions, and anticipate…

Assessing a cited paper's impact is typically done by analyzing its citation context in isolation within the citing paper. While this focuses on the most directly relevant text, it prevents relative comparisons across all the works a paper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hannah Collison , Benjamin Van Durme , Daniel Khashabi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have extended their impact beyond Natural Language Processing, substantially fostering the development of interdisciplinary research. Recently, various LLM-based agents have been developed to assist scientific…

Scientific breakthroughs typically emerge through the surprising violation of established research ideas, yet quantifying surprise has remained elusive because it requires a coherent model of all contemporary scientific worldviews. Deep…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhen Zhang , James Evans

Scientific literature understanding is crucial for extracting targeted information and garnering insights, thereby significantly advancing scientific discovery. Despite the remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs), they face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Sihang Li , Jin Huang , Jiaxi Zhuang , Yaorui Shi , Xiaochen Cai , Mingjun Xu , Xiang Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Guolin Ke , Hengxing Cai

The volume of academic paper submissions and publications is growing at an ever increasing rate. While this flood of research promises progress in various fields, the sheer volume of output inherently increases the amount of noise. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Marko Stamenovic , Jeibo Luo

Scientific impact plays a central role in the evaluation of the output of scholars, departments, and institutions. A widely used measure of scientific impact is citations, with a growing body of literature focused on predicting the number…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Yuxiao Dong , Reid A. Johnson , Nitesh V. Chawla

In this paper, we describe the capabilities and constraints of Large Language Models (LLMs) within disparate academic disciplines, aiming to delineate their strengths and limitations with precision. We examine how LLMs augment scientific…

We present SciRIFF (Scientific Resource for Instruction-Following and Finetuning), a dataset of 137K instruction-following instances for training and evaluation, covering 54 tasks. These tasks span five core scientific literature…

Citations play a vital role in understanding the impact of scientific literature. Generally, citations are analyzed quantitatively whereas qualitative analysis of citations can reveal deeper insights into the impact of a scientific artifact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Dominique Mercier , Syed Tahseen Raza Rizvi , Vikas Rajashekar , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Scientific reasoning inherently demands integrating sophisticated toolkits to navigate domain-specific knowledge. Yet, current benchmarks largely overlook agents' ability to orchestrate tools for such rigorous workflows. To bridge this gap,…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agentic systems that translate natural language intent into executable scientific visualization (SciVis) tasks. Despite rapid progress, the community lacks a principled and…

Governments sometimes need to analyse sets of research papers within a field in order to monitor progress, assess the effect of recent policy changes, or identify areas of excellence. They may compare the average citation impacts of the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Ruth Fairclough , Mike Thelwall