Search for evergreens in science: A functional data analysis

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 629-644

  Zhang, Ruizhi ^a   Wang, Jian ^b,c   Mei, Yajun ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c European University of Applied Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citation trajectory; Evergreen; Functional Poisson regression; Functional principal component analysis; K means clustering

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORIES;

EVERGREEN; FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; PHYSICAL SOCIETIES; POISSON REGRESSION; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 85020729837     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2017.05.007     Document Type: Article

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