Hidden Citations Obscure True Impact in Science

• https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/5/pgae155/7664049
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16181
• Xiangyi Meng, Onur Varol, Albert-László Barabási

Hidden citation

They identified “catchphrases” that are linked to individual papers and tracked the usage of catchphrases with respect to the citation to the original papers.

Over time, only the catchphrases tend to be mentioned without citations to the original paper.