Where should I publish? Heterogeneous, networks-based prediction of paper’s citation success

Rajmund Klemiński, Przemyslaw Kazienko and Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Journal of Informetrics, 2021, vol. 15, issue 3

Abstract: Scientific output, as measured in research published annually, has seen a consistent growth for decades now. As more manuscripts are submitted for publication each year, new publishing venues appear – often as increasingly specialised offshoots of existing journals and conferences. This situation presents scholars with a wealth of publishing venues to consider and choose from for their manuscripts. Surprisingly, we find that the most cited papers are not necessarily found in the highest-ranked journals, while the best conferences dominate in this regard. We find it intriguing that popular Computer Science conferences act like a vacuum of attention, centralising all good publications, while journals are carried less by their renown and thus can attract strong manuscripts even at a low rank. But to what extent does a venue imply a paper’s recognition and popularity?

Keywords: Scientometrics; Network embedding; Citation prediction; Citation network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2021.101200

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