Sociomeeting: A network-based normalized impact measure reveals successful periods of scientific discovery across discipline

The impact of a scientific publication is often measured by the number of citations it receives from the scientific community. However, citation count is susceptible to well-documented variations in citation practices across time and discipline, limiting our ability to compare different scientific achievements. Previous efforts to account for citation variations often rely on a priori discipline labels of papers, assuming that all papers in a discipline are identical in their subject matter. Here, we propose a network-based methodology to quantify the impact of an article by comparing it with locally comparable research, thereby eliminating the discipline label requirement. See more on the abstract:

Reference: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2309378120

Authors: Qing Ke, Alexander J. Gates, and Albert-László Barabási