Which publication is your representative work?

作者：

Highlights：

• We propose a diffusion method to identify the representative work for individual authors.

• Our method outperforms the PageRank and citation count methods.

• Our method is very robust against name ambiguity.

• Research patterns of scientists can be revealed by our diffusion method.

• The method can be extended to journals, institutes and countries.

摘要

Highlights•We propose a diffusion method to identify the representative work for individual authors.•Our method outperforms the PageRank and citation count methods.•Our method is very robust against name ambiguity.•Research patterns of scientists can be revealed by our diffusion method.•The method can be extended to journals, institutes and countries.

论文关键词：Representative work,Self-avoiding preferential diffusion,Citation networks

论文评审过程：Received 5 February 2016, Revised 16 June 2016, Accepted 16 June 2016, Available online 28 June 2016, Version of Record 28 June 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.06.001