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Will Your Paper Get Promoted by a Citation? A Case Study of Citation Promoter in Computer Science Discipline

Authors :
Aixin Sun
Feiheng Luo
Yin-Leng Theng
Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar
Mojisola Erdt
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Source :
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. 9:238-245
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021.

Abstract

Reseachers have investigated numerous factors influencing citation counts of cited papers. One factor investigated has been the number of gained citations, as this could increase the visibility of cited papers and subsequently induce further citations. In this paper, aiming to identify a particular kind of citation that could trigger a rapid growth in the citation counts of cited papers, a concept of "citation promoter" was proposed. We defined citation promoters based on the annual citation rates of the cited papers and the co-citation counts received by the pair of cited and citing papers. The comparative results showed that papers would obtain a sharp rise in citation counts shortly after they were cited by citation promoters. Papers that received citation promoters at an early age outperformed other papers in long-term citation counts. In addition, we developed a classification model for predicting whether a citing paper would be a citation promoter for its cited paper. Since it was a class imbalanced problem (4% positive instances), and there was a lack of content and author features in our dataset, our preliminary models achieved moderate performance with an $F_1$ score slightly higher than 0.5, while the $F_1$ score obtained by random guessing was 0.07. National Research Foundation (NRF) Accepted version This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Ministers Office, Singapore under its Science of Research, Innovation and Enterprise programme (SRIE Award No. NRF2014-NRF-SRIE001-019).

Details

ISSN :
23764562
Volume :
9
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....0c2ef61a2e82e700c21284257df42cf8