Abstract Scientific articles often include in-text citations quoting from external sources. When the cited source is an article, citation context can be analyzed by exploring article full-text. To quickly access key information, researchers are interested in identifying sections of that most pertinent to text surrounding citing article. This paper first performs a data-driven analysis correlati...

We are interested in modelling the time to first citation, that is how long does it take for a publication to be cited for the first time after it has been published in a journal. We argue that both cited and uncited publications should contribute to the distribution of the time to first citation. Moreover, our objective is to model the time to first citation nonparametrically, hence under no p...

The paper presents the results of the study of international and national cooperation of Ukrainian scientists from different scientific fields using citation analysis data from Scopus in the period of 2011-2015. The results show that during the period under study, the number of documents of highly cited Ukrainian scientists that have received enough citations to be included to the top 1%, 5% an...

In this comment, I discuss the use of statistical inference in citation analysis. In a recent paper, Williams and Bornmann argue in favor of the use of statistical inference in citation analysis. I present a critical analysis of their arguments and of similar arguments provided elsewhere in the literature. My conclusion is that the use of statistical inference in citation analysis involves majo...

Certain areas of scientific research flourish while others lose advocates and attention. We are interested in whether structural patterns within citation networks correspond to the growth or decline of the research areas to which those networks belong. We focus on three topic areas within optical physics as a set of cases; those areas have developed along different trajectories: one continues t...

Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fas...

Analysis of a dataset including a network of LED patents and their metadata is carried out using several methods in order to answer questions about the domain. We are interested in finding the relationship between the metadata and the network structure; for example, are central patents in the network produced by larger or smaller companies? We begin by exploring the structure of the network wit...

Abstract The citation graph is a computational artifact that widely used to represent the domain of published literature. It represents connections between works, such as citations and authorship. Among other things, supports computation bibliometric measures h-indexes impact factors. There now an increasing demand we should treat publication data in same way conventional publications. In parti...

A triangulation strategy, employing a number of network analysis techniques, was implemented in the study of a single social network of biomedical scientists specializing in lipid metabolism research. Here we present the results of co-word analysis of grants awarded to these scientists by the National Institutes of Health, network analysis (NEGOPY) and factor analysis of the scientists’ respons...