Impact functions on the citation network of scientific articles

José A. de la Peña

Journal of Informetrics, 2011, vol. 5, issue 4, 565-573

Abstract: Scientometric models, which consider papers in a undifferentiated way, are blind to important features of the citation network. We propose an approach for the definition of a function PS, for any set of scientific articles S, which reflects global properties of the citation network associated to S. Such a function, that we propose as a measure of the impact of scientific papers, is constructed as solution of an iterated system of Perron-eigenvalue problems. We discuss differences with previously defined measures, in particular of the PageRank type.

Keywords: Network of citations; Impact of papers; Eigenvalues of matrices associated to networks; Perron eigenvalue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.05.001

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