Identification of milestone papers through time-balanced network centrality

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Highlights:

• We analyze the citation network of APS papers (1893–2009).

• We study how well different metrics identify the PRL Milestone Letters.

• Citation count and PageRank can only identify sufficiently old Milestone Letters.

• The new Rescaled PageRank allows us to early identify the Milestone Letters.

• Network centrality and time balance are essential to effectively rank the papers.

摘要

Highlights•We analyze the citation network of APS papers (1893–2009).•We study how well different metrics identify the PRL Milestone Letters.•Citation count and PageRank can only identify sufficiently old Milestone Letters.•The new Rescaled PageRank allows us to early identify the Milestone Letters.•Network centrality and time balance are essential to effectively rank the papers.

论文关键词:Citation analysis,Metrics evaluation,PageRank,Time bias,Milestone papers

论文评审过程:Received 18 June 2016, Revised 14 October 2016, Accepted 14 October 2016, Available online 4 November 2016, Version of Record 4 November 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.10.005