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<p>This article provides the results of a citation determinants model for a set of academic engineering texts from Colombia. The model establishes the determinants of the probability that a text receives at least one citation through the relationship among previous citations, journal characteristics, the author and the text. Through a similarity matrix constructed by Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a similarity variable has been constructed to capture the fact that the texts have similar titles, abstracts and keywords to the most cited texts. The results show: i) joint significance of the variables selected to characterize the text; ii) direct relationship of the citation with similarity of keywords, published in an IEEE journal, research article, more than one author; and authored by at least one foreign author; and iii) inverse relationship between the probability of citation with the similarity of abstracts, published in 2016 or 2017, and published in a Colombian journal.</p>
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This article provides the results of a citation determinants model for a set of academic engineering texts from Colombia. The model establishes the determinants of the probability that a text receives at least one citation through the relationship among previous citations, journal characteristics, the author and the text. Through a similarity matrix constructed by Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a similarity variable has been constructed to capture the fact that the texts have similar titles, abstracts and keywords to the most cited texts. The results show: i) joint significance of the variables selected to characterize the text; ii) direct relationship of the citation with similarity of keywords, published in an IEEE journal, research article, more than one author; and authored by at least one foreign author; and iii) inverse relationship between the probability of citation with the similarity of abstracts, published in 2016 or 2017, and published in a Colombian journal.

Citation and Similarity in Academic Texts: Colombian Engineering Case

Vice Rectorate for Research, Universitaria Agustiniana

Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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This article provides the results of a citation determinants model for a set of academic engineering texts from Colombia. The model establishes the...

Citation and Similarity in Academic Texts: Colombian Engineering Case

Published Online: Apr 10, 2022

Page range: 95 - 103

Received: Jun 19, 2021

Accepted: Dec 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2022-0006

Keywords
Latent semantic analysis, text similarity, citation determinants, bibliometrics

© 2022 Marco Aguilera-Prado et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Citation and Similarity in Academic Texts: Colombian Engineering Case

Published Online: Apr 10, 2022

Page range: 95 - 103

Received: Jun 19, 2021

Accepted: Dec 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2022-0006

KeywordsLatent semantic analysis, text similarity, citation determinants, bibliometrics

© 2022 Marco Aguilera-Prado et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Latent semantic analysis, text similarity, citation determinants, bibliometrics