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Citation analysis has been applied to map the landscape of scientific disciplines and to assess the impact of publications. However, it is limited as it assumes all citations to be of equal weight. Current developments focus on the evaluation of syntactic

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Dec 13th, 12:00 AM

Unpacking Impact in Science: The Explanatory Power of Citations

Citation analysis has been applied to map the landscape of scientific disciplines and to assess the impact of publications. However, it is limited as it assumes all citations to be of equal weight. Current developments focus on the evaluation of syntactic