Measuring researchers' potential scholarly impact with structural variations: Four types of researchers in information science (1979-2018).

We propose a method to measure the potential scholarly impact of researchers based on network structural variations they introduced to the underlying author co-citation network of their field. We applied the method to the information science field based on 91,978 papers published between 1979 and 20...

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Main Authors: Jianhua Hou, Xiucai Yang, Chaomei Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234347