Bibliometric Search with Focused Citation Ratios

Abstract

A survey of related work is an important task for every researcher, and databases of scientific articles are indispensable for this task. This paper proposes a new visualization method for search results and demonstrates a system that implements this method. Given a query, the system returns a list of articles and displays a time series of citation counts (CCs) for each article. The novelty of the visualization is in its use of CC for the horizontal axis and focused CC (FCC) for the vertical axis. A scatter plot of the article reveals how the article was evaluated.