Abstract:With the development of worldwide knowledge-based economy, structures of knowledge diffusion in scientific research have become extremely complex and dynamic. Properly evaluating the knowledge diffusion would encourage authors to pursue high quality researches. Hence, this paper presents a novel metric of independency of knowledge diffusion (IKD) on the published paper v, defined as the ratio of citation counts of v without its references’ to citation counts of v and its references’ minus their commons’. Utili… Show more
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