<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec><h3>Purpose</h3><p>The number of citations has been widely used to measure the significance of a paper. However, there is a need in introducing another index to determine superiority or inferiority of papers with the same number of citations. We determine superiority or inferiority of papers by using the ranking based on the number of citations and PageRank.</p></sec><sec><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>We show the positive linear correlation between Citation Rank (the ranking of the number of citation) and PageRank. On this basis, we identify high-quality, prestige, emerging, and popular papers.</p></sec><sec><h3>Findings</h3><p>We found that the high-quality papers belong to the subjects of biochemistry and molecular biology, chemistry, and multidisciplinary sciences. The prestige papers correspond to the subjects of computer science, engineering, and information science. The emerging papers are related to biochemistry and molecular biology, as well as those published in the journal “Cell.” The popular papers belong to the subject of multidisciplinary sciences.</p></sec><sec><h3>Research limitations</h3><p>We analyze the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) from 1981 to 2015 to calculate Citation Rank and PageRank within a citation network consisting of 34,666,719 papers and 591,321,826 citations.</p></sec><sec><h3>Practical implications</h3><p>Our method is applicable to forecast emerging fields of research subjects in science and helps policymakers to consider science policy.</p></sec><sec><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>We calculated PageRank for a giant citation network which is extremely larger than the citation networks investigated by previous researchers.</p></sec></abstract>

PurposeThe number of citations has been widely used to measure the significance of a paper. However, there is a need in introducing another index to determine superiority or inferiority of papers with the same number of citations. We determine superiority or inferiority of papers by using the ranking based on the number of citations and PageRank.Design/methodology/approachWe show the positive linear correlation between Citation Rank (the ranking of the number of citation) and PageRank. On this basis, we identify high-quality, prestige, emerging, and popular papers.FindingsWe found that the high-quality papers belong to the subjects of biochemistry and molecular biology, chemistry, and multidisciplinary sciences. The prestige papers correspond to the subjects of computer science, engineering, and information science. The emerging papers are related to biochemistry and molecular biology, as well as those published in the journal “Cell.” The popular papers belong to the subject of multidisciplinary sciences.Research limitationsWe analyze the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) from 1981 to 2015 to calculate Citation Rank and PageRank within a citation network consisting of 34,666,719 papers and 591,321,826 citations.Practical implicationsOur method is applicable to forecast emerging fields of research subjects in science and helps policymakers to consider science policy.Originality/valueWe calculated PageRank for a giant citation network which is extremely larger than the citation networks investigated by previous researchers.

Classification of Paper Values Based on Citation Rank and PageRank

Journal of Data and Information Science

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PurposeThe number of citations has been widely used to measure the significance of a paper. However, there is a need in introducing another index to determine...

Classification of Paper Values Based on Citation Rank and PageRank

Article Category: Research Paper

Published Online: Jul 28, 2020

Page range: 57 - 70

Received: Jan 31, 2020

Accepted: Jun 11, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2020-0031

Keywords
Number of citation, PageRank, High-quality papers, Prestige papers, Emerging papers, Popular papers

© 2020 Wataru Souma et al., published by Sciendo

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

Classification of Paper Values Based on Citation Rank and PageRank

Article Category: Research Paper

Published Online: Jul 28, 2020

Page range: 57 - 70

Received: Jan 31, 2020

Accepted: Jun 11, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2020-0031

KeywordsNumber of citation, PageRank, High-quality papers, Prestige papers, Emerging papers, Popular papers

© 2020 Wataru Souma et al., published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
Number of citation, PageRank, High-quality papers, Prestige papers, Emerging papers, Popular papers