A study on the citation situation within the citing paper: citation distribution of references according to mention frequency

Pak, Cholmyong; Yu, Guang; Wang, Weibin

doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2627-0

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“…There is a significant power law distribution relationship between the mentioned frequencies and the number of citing papers for HCPs (a), MCPs (b) and LCPs (c). The result is consistent with that of [54]. Most of the cited papers were mentioned less than three times.…”

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“…Subsequently, the significance of citations was determined based on their appearing sections [73]. Researchers stated that the number of citations that a publication is cited in the other publications can represent the formal quality of the publication [54]. They examined about how many times each reference was really mentioned within the citing publications to evaluate the impact of references.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The number of citations cannot tell us how a piece of research was used in practice, only that it is known and cited. The frequency an article is cited within a publication has been used to demonstrate its usefulness [2], [51], [54]. This consideration on the frequency of citation therefore offers an easily measurable, potentially useful metric for gauging the importance of the cited work to the citing ones.…”

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Quantifying a Paper’s Academic Impact by Distinguishing the Unequal Intensities and Contributions of Citations

Wang

Ren

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Citation count is a widely-used indicator for calculating the academic impact of scientific papers, but it is limited because it assumes all citations are of similar value and weights each equally. By examining the influence changes in papers' citation distribution and the cited papers' unequal contributions to the citing ones, this study aims to distinguish citations and, on this basis, evaluate the academic impact of the papers. Three indices of time-weighted citation count, citation width and citation depth are proposed to distinguish citations and perform the evaluation task. The experimental results show that papers exhibit different influence intensity characteristics in different periods of citation life. Those papers got larger citations in recent years are more influential and more active to gain new citations. The papers show the different scope of influence in their citing environment, although they were originally published in the same journal and the same year. In addition, the different frequency of mentions and the different subject similarities with the citing works suggest that the papers have different importance and usefulness for subsequent research. These results suggest that these three indices do help to distinguish citations and reveal the different intensity and contribution of influences in citations. Finally, the three indices are integrated into the overall evaluation of the academic impact of the paper, and the weight of each index is calculated by the entropy weight method. Quite different overall impacts in the paper are shown due to their different performances in the three indices, even though they have the same total number of citations. INDEX TERMS Academic impact, time window, knowledge flow, mentioned frequency, entropy weight method.

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Section: Experimental Results For the Citation Depthsupporting

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Section: A Citation-based Methodsmentioning

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Quantifying a Paper’s Academic Impact by Distinguishing the Unequal Intensities and Contributions of Citations

Wang

Ren

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“…Zhu et al (2015) analysed 40 literatures in 10 fields and found that using the number of times a reference was mentioned in the body of citation literature to assess academic value was more reliable. Pak et al (2018) verified that more than 20% of references were mentioned three or more times.…”

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Assessing books’ academic impacts via integrated computation of multi-level citation information

Zhou

2022

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Purpose Citations have been used as a common basis to measure the academic accomplishments of scientific books. However, traditional citation analysis ignored content mining and without consideration of citation equivalence, which may lead to the decline of evaluation reliability. Hence, this paper aims to integrate multi-level citation information to conduct multi-dimensional analysis. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, books’ academic impacts were measured by integrating multi-level citation resources, including books’ citation frequencies and citation-related contents. Specifically, firstly, books’ citation frequencies were counted as the frequency-level metric. Secondly, content-level metrics were detected from multi-dimensional citation contents based on finer-grained mining, including topic extraction on the metadata and citation classification on the citation contexts. Finally, differential metric weighting methods were compared with integrate the multi-level metrics and computing books’ academic impacts. Findings The experimental results indicate that the integration of multiple citation resources is necessary, as it can significantly improve the comprehensiveness of the evaluation results. Meanwhile, compared with the type differences of books, disciplinary differences need more attention when evaluating the academic impacts of books. Originality/value Academic impact assessment of books via integrating multi-level citation information can provide more detailed evaluation information and cover shortcomings of methods based on single citation data. Moreover, the method proposed in this paper is publication independent, which can be used to measure other publications besides books.

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“…Some researchers have reported that 22% of references are mentioned 3 times or more [16], [17]. One study examined articles in 4 journals and reported that about 20% of references were mentioned more than 2 times [21]. Thus, we set the criteria value as three, representing whether the reference was highly mentioned or rarely mentioned, and used the value to divide the references into two classes.…”

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Research on the Relevancy of Scientific Literature Based on the Citation-Mention Frequency

Wang

Pak

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All papers cite references, but not all citations are equal. This is because references have different citation-mention frequencies. Some references are mentioned only once, while some are mentioned several times. Papers are cited by others when they are relevant to the citing paper. The fact that a reference has a high citation-mention frequency may mean that its content is more closely related to the citing paper. From this point of view, we examined the relevancy of a cited paper to a citing paper on the basis of citation-mention frequency. Two aspects of relevancy are considered: citation linkage and content. We construct a highly mentioned class of references and a rarely mentioned class of references. We introduce the concepts of ''reference-similarity'' and ''content-similarity.'' First, we count the number of co-cited references and calculate the reference-similarity. Second, we extract the abstracts of papers and calculate the content-similarity using the bag-of-words model. The results show that references from the highly mentioned class are more relevant to the citing papers than those from the rarely mentioned class.

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A study on the citation situation within the citing paper: citation distribution of references according to mention frequency

Cited by 16 publications

References 31 publications

Quantifying a Paper’s Academic Impact by Distinguishing the Unequal Intensities and Contributions of Citations

Quantifying a Paper’s Academic Impact by Distinguishing the Unequal Intensities and Contributions of Citations

Assessing books’ academic impacts via integrated computation of multi-level citation information

Research on the Relevancy of Scientific Literature Based on the Citation-Mention Frequency

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