Tracing the main path of interdisciplinary research considering citation preference: A case from blockchain domain

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Highlights：

• A new main path named preference main path is proposed.

• Discipline difference and time bias are considered in this article.

• These citation preference factors are normalized with average citation count.

• The improved method can focus on papers from special disciplines and periods.

• The dataset of Blockchain papers is adopted to illustrate the effect of new method.

摘要

•A new main path named preference main path is proposed.•Discipline difference and time bias are considered in this article.•These citation preference factors are normalized with average citation count.•The improved method can focus on papers from special disciplines and periods.•The dataset of Blockchain papers is adopted to illustrate the effect of new method.

论文关键词：Blockchain,Main path analysis,Discipline difference,Citation preference

论文评审过程：Received 11 September 2020, Revised 11 January 2021, Accepted 22 January 2021, Available online 4 February 2021, Version of Record 4 February 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101136