Decision letter for "A multidimensional perspective on the citation impact of scientific publications"

arXiv: Digital Libraries Pub Date : 2019-01-28 DOI:10.1162/qss_a_00109/v2/decision1

Yi Bu, L. Waltman, Yong Huang

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The citation impact of scientific publications is usually seen as a one-dimensional concept. We introduce a three-dimensional perspective on the citation impact of publications. In addition to the level of citation impact, quantified by the number of citations received by a publication, we also conceptualize and operationalize the depth and dependence of citation impact. This enables us to make a distinction between publications that have a deep impact concentrated in one specific field of research and publications that have a broad impact scattered over different research fields. It also allows us to distinguish between publications that are strongly dependent on earlier work and publications that make a more independent scientific contribution. We present a large-scale empirical analysis of the level, depth, and dependence of the citation impact of publications. In addition, we report a case study focusing on publications in the field of scientometrics. Our three-dimensional citation impact framework provides a more detailed understanding of the citation impact of a publication than a traditional one-dimensional perspective.

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“科学出版物引用影响的多维视角”决定书

科学出版物的引用影响通常被视为一个一维的概念。我们引入了一个三维视角来研究出版物的引文影响。除了通过出版物被引用次数量化的引文影响水平外，我们还对引文影响的深度和依赖性进行了概念化和操作。这使我们能够区分集中在一个特定研究领域具有深刻影响的出版物和分散在不同研究领域具有广泛影响的出版物。它还使我们能够区分强烈依赖于早期工作的出版物和做出更独立科学贡献的出版物。我们对出版物引用影响的水平、深度和依赖性进行了大规模的实证分析。此外，我们报告了一个关于科学计量学领域出版物的案例研究。我们的三维引用影响框架比传统的一维视角提供了对出版物引用影响的更详细的了解。

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