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A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Narrow sources, broad impact
The underlying idea is that, for example, in the case of a survey paper, it is natural that publications within the set A and also within the set B will be spread quite far from each other. However, this is not a sign of the paper’s contribution, but rather a natural feature of…
Publication contribution
A publication has a high contribution if it creates a “long bridge” between more distant areas of science.
The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles
A contribution is a long bridge to the new
A publication has a high contribution if it creates a “long bridge” from what we knew already to something new which people will develop based on it.
Impactful papers need not be heavily cited
our method to assess the contribution of a paper means that a paper with high impact does not need to be extensively cited , however it needs to inspire a change in its domain or even define a new domain.