Are all literature citations equally important? Automatic citation strength estimation and its applications

Volume: 65, Issue: 9, Pages: 1929 - 1938
Published: Sep 1, 2014
Abstract
Literature citation analysis plays a very important role in bibliometrics and scientometrics, such as the Science Citation Index (SCI) impact factor, h-index. Existing citation analysis methods assume that all citations in a paper are equally important, and they simply count the number of citations. Here we argue that the citations in a paper are not equally important and some citations are more important than the others. We use a strength value...
Paper Details
Title
Are all literature citations equally important? Automatic citation strength estimation and its applications
Published Date
Sep 1, 2014
Volume
65
Issue
9
Pages
1929 - 1938
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