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Discoverers in scientific citation data

Shi, Gui-Yuan ; Kong, Yi-Xiu ; Yuan, Guang-Hui ; Wu, Rui-Jie ; Zeng, An ; Medo, Matúš

In: Journal of Informetrics, 2019, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 717–725

Identifying the future influential papers among the newly published ones is an important yet challenging issue in bibliometrics. As newly published papers have no or limited citation history, linear extrapolation of their citation counts—which is motivated by the well-known preferential attachment mechanism—is not applicable. We translate the recently introduced notion of discoverers to...