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How does citing behavior for a scientific article change over time? A preliminary study
Author(s) -
LU Ch'ao,
ZHANG Chengzhi,
MA Shutian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010097
Subject(s) - citation , citation analysis , computer science , information retrieval , content (measure theory) , data science , statistics , mathematics , library science , mathematical analysis
This study is to investigate how citing behavior for a scientific article changes over time. A highly cited article is chosen to collect citation content from its 902 citing articles. Natural language processing and content analysis are adopted to encode citation content and complete the statistics of citation behavior. Citation content analysis indexes including citation mention, length, and location, are used to describe the changes of citation behavior over time. The experimental results show that there is correlation between citing time with most of the indexes and that citation mention and citation length are declining while the number of the citation co‐occurrences is increasing.