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A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Added value as semantic distance across citations
Our hypothesis states that the added value of publication p can be estimated based on the semantic distance from the publications cited by p to the publications citing p.
Publication contribution
A publication has a high contribution if it creates a “long bridge” between more distant areas of science.
Open access for machines as well as humans
Overall, we believe this situation demonstrates the need for supporting Open Access to research publications not only for humans to read, but also for machines to access.
Company Information : About Npg
Nature Publishing Group (company description)
Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes the Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including…
Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
CORE extracts citation networks
CORE uses the ParsCit system to extract citation information from the publications full-‐text. This information is used in turn to check if the (cited) target documents are also present in the CORE aggregation to create a link between the cited publications. Within the…
Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social
Co-citation analysis vs bibliographic coupling
Both Small and Marshakova- Shaikevich contrasted co-citation with bibliographic coupling, which had been described by Myer Kessler in 196315. Bibliographic coupling measures subject similarity between documents based on the frequency of shared cited references: if two works…
Sick Of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
If you use impact factors you are statistically illiterate
I don’t wish to under-estimate the difficulties. I am well aware of the risks involved, particularly to young researchers trying to forge a career in a culture that is so inured to the impact factor. It will take a determined and concerted effort from those in a position of…
Peer-review vs crowdsourcing in scientific publishing
Writing in 2008, Campbell (albeit somewhat uncertainly) saw a possible solution to the impact factor conundrum in the rise of mega-journals like PLoS ONE, which publish exclusively online and judge papers only on their novelty and technical competence, and in the potential of…
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.