 Assessing impact and quality from local dynamics of citation networksCamille Roth, Jiang Wu and Sergi Lozano Journal of Informetrics, 2012, vol. 6, issue 1, 111-120 Abstract: We show that essentially local dynamics of citation networks bring special information about the relevance/quality of a paper. Up to some rescaling, they exhibit universal behavior in citation dynamics: temporal patterns are remarkably consistent across disciplines, and uncover a prediction method for citations based on the structure of references only, at publication time. Above-average cited papers universally focus extensively on their own recent subfield – as such, citation counts essentially select what may plausibly be considered as the most disciplinary and normal science; whereas papers which have a peculiar dynamics, such as re-birthing scientific works – ‘rediscovered classics’ or ‘early birds’ – are comparatively poorly cited, despite their plausible relevance for the underlying communities. The “rebirth index” that we propose to quantify this phenomenon may be used as a complementary quality-defining criterion, in addition to final citation counts. Keywords: Citation networks; Bibliometrics; Qualitative assessment; Citation dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:infome:v:6:y:2012:i:1:p:111-120 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.08.005 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Informetrics is currently edited by Leo Egghe More articles in Journal of Informetrics from Elsevier |
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