Identification of milestone papers through time-balanced network centrality

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1207-1223

  Mariani, Manuel Sebastian ^a   Medo, Matúš ^a   Zhang, Yi Cheng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Metrics evaluation; Milestone papers; PageRank; Time bias

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CITATION ANALYSIS; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; METRICS EVALUATION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PAGERANK; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERY; TIME BIAS;

PAPER;

EID: 84993973248     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2016.10.005     Document Type: Article

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