Impact of lexical and sentiment factors on the popularity of scientific papers

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Sienkiewicz, Julian ^a   Altmann, Eduardo G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Quantile regression; Sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975796018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160140     Document Type: Article

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