Are all citations worth the same? Valuing citations by the value of the citing items

作者:

Highlights:

• We propose and apply a model to value citations by the impact of the citing articles.

• Citations have value from 1 (if from uncited articles) to 2 (if from highest cited articles).

• The proposed impact indicator is highly correlated to the traditional citation count.

• The new indicator shows greater sensitivity when used to identify top-cited papers.

摘要

•We propose and apply a model to value citations by the impact of the citing articles.•Citations have value from 1 (if from uncited articles) to 2 (if from highest cited articles).•The proposed impact indicator is highly correlated to the traditional citation count.•The new indicator shows greater sensitivity when used to identify top-cited papers.

论文关键词:Research evaluation,Impact,Citing-cited,Bibliometrics

论文评审过程:Received 21 June 2018, Revised 15 February 2019, Accepted 19 February 2019, Available online 12 March 2019, Version of Record 12 March 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.02.008