In the fast-growing scholarly big data background, social network technologies have recently
aroused widespread attention in academia and industry. The concept of academic social …

The deluge of digital information in our daily life—from user-generated content, such as
microblogs and scientific papers, to online business, such as viral marketing and advertising …

Citations have long been used to characterize the state of a scientific field and to identify
influential works. However, writers use citations for different purposes, and this varied …

An ability to predict the popularity dynamics of individual items within a complex evolving
system has important implications in an array of areas. Here we propose a generative …

With the growing number of published scientific papers world-wide, the need to evaluation
and quality assessment methods for research papers is increasing. Scientific fields such as …

Identifying important scholarly literature at an early stage is vital to the academic research
community and other stakeholders such as technology companies and government bodies …

With the advancement of science and technology, the number of academic papers
published each year has increased almost exponentially. While a large number of research …

Breakthrough research may signal shifts in science, technology, and innovation systems.
Early identification of breakthrough research is important not only for scientists, but also for …

Scientific impact plays a central role in the evaluation of the output of scholars, departments,
and institutions. A widely used measure of scientific impact is citations, with a growing body …

Citation analysis does not tell the whole story about the innovativeness of scientific papers.
Works by prominent authors tend to receive disproportionately many citations, while …