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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…
I’m Still Here: Back Online After A Year Without The Internet | The Verge
The internet is reprogramming our relationships, our emotions, and our sensitivity
A couple weeks later, I found myself among 60,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews, pouring into New York's Citi Field to learn from the world's most respected rabbis about the dangers of the internet. Naturally. Outside the stadium, I was spotted by a man brandishing one of my own articles…
Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social
Small's co-citation analysis maps scientific specialties
In 1973, Small published a paper that was as groundbreaking in its own way as Garfield’s 1955 paper introducing citation indexing for science. This paper, “Co-citation in the scientific literature: a new measure of relationship between two documents,” introduced A new era in…
Fractional co-citation clustering
Garfield and Small both continued their research and experiments in science mapping over the decade and thereafter. In two papers published in 1985, Small introduced an important modification to his method for defining research fronts: fractional co-citation clustering. By…