Quantifying success in science: An overview

X Bai, H Pan, J Hou, T Guo, I Lee, F Xia - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantifying success in science plays a key role in guiding funding allocations, recruitment
decisions, and rewards. Recently, a significant amount of progresses have been made …

Forward search path count as an alternative indirect citation impact indicator

X Jiang, H Zhuge - Journal of Informetrics, 2019 - Elsevier
Main path analysis is a popular method for extracting the backbone of scientific evolution
from a (paper) citation network. The first and core step of main path analysis, called search …

Heterogeneous academic network embedding based multivariate random-walk model for predicting scientific impact

C Xiao, L Sun, J Han, Y Qiao - Applied Intelligence, 2022 - Springer
The prediction of current scientific impact of papers and authors has been extensively
studied to help researchers find valuable papers and recent research directions, also help …

TimeRank: A dynamic approach to rate scholars using citations

M Franceschet, G Colavizza - Journal of Informetrics, 2017 - Elsevier
Rating has become a common practice of modern science. No rating system can be
considered as final, but instead several approaches can be taken, which magnify different …