Evaluating the impact of citations of articles based on knowledge flow patterns hidden in the citations.

ABSTRACT: The effective evaluation of the impact of a scholarly article is a significant endeavor; for this reason, it has garnered attention. From the perspective of knowledge flow, this paper extracted various knowledge flow patterns concealed in articles citation counts to describe the citation impact of the articles. First, the intensity characteristic of knowledge flow was investigated to distinguish the different citation vitality of articles. Second, the knowledge diffusion capacity was examined to differentiate the size of the scope of articles' influences on the academic environment. Finally, the knowledge transfer capacity was discussed to investigate the support degree of articles on the follow-up research. Experimental results show that articles got more citations recently have a higher

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6872168 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature