Citation

• Remix
• Legal citation

The most rudimentary way to quantify Scholarly impact.

Citation indicators are “indicative, but not demonstrative” (Measuring Research)

Foundational papers

• Garfield1955citation

Alternative ways

• A network-based citation indicator of scientific performance

What predicts the number of citations?

There are many features that are associated with the number of citations. Tahamtan2016factors reviews them. For instance, the more references a paper has, the more citations it tends to receive.

References

• The first-mover advantage in scientific publication
  • Prediction of highly cited papers
• Universal hierarchical behavior of citation networks
• Regression for citation data: An evaluation of different methods