Do citations and readership identify seminal publications?

Autor/inn/en	Herrmannova, Drahomira; Patton, Robert M.; Knoth, Petr; Stahl, Christopher G.
Titel	Do citations and readership identify seminal publications?
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2018) 1, S.239-262 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-018-2669-y
Schlagwörter	Information retrieval; Scholarly communication; Publication datasets; Data mining; Research evaluation; Bibliometrics; Altmetrics
Abstract	Abstract This work presents a new approach for analysing the ability of existing research metrics to identify research which has strongly influenced future developments. More specifically, we focus on the ability of citation counts and Mendeley reader counts to distinguish between publications regarded as seminal and publications regarded as literature reviews by field experts. The main motivation behind our research is to gain a better understanding of whether and how well the existing research metrics relate to research quality. For this experiment we have created a new dataset which we call TrueImpactDataset and which contains two types of publications, seminal papers and literature reviews. Using the dataset, we conduct a set of experiments to study how citation and reader counts perform in distinguishing these publication types, following the intuition that causing a change in a field signifies research quality. Our research shows that citation counts work better than a random baseline (by a margin of 10%) in distinguishing important seminal research papers from literature reviews while Mendeley reader counts do not work better than the baseline.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05