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

Abstract

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.

Identification High Influential Articles by Considering the Topic Characteristics of Articles

“…Since Garfield regarded the citation counts as the basic index of bibliometrics, the citation counts provides an important basis for researchers to quantitatively evaluate the impact of scientific research papers [36], [63]- [71], academic institutions [5] and academic individuals [8]- [9], [12], [72]. Although many studies have shown that it is difficult to fully reflect the impact of research literature only with its total number of citations, considering the universality and availability of indicators, researchers still tend to use the number of citations to express the influence of an article in the academic community [21]- [22], [47]- [48], [73].…”