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Is the Article Crucial to My Research? Evaluating Task-Oriented Impacts of Scientific Articles in Information Seeking

Year: 2013

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We propose a new aspect of evaluating scientific articles: crucialness, which refers to the state of articles being not only useful, but also scarce (difficult to be found or identified by scientists). Compared with the popularity-based metrics, crucialness may be a better metric in helping scientists’ information seeking and use because it identifies scientists’ difficulties in information seeking and reveals the crucial articles that may help scientists succeed in research. Some preliminary results are presented and discussed.

Source: D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh)

DOI: 10.9776/13298

Authors: Jiepu Jiang, Daqing He, Shuguang Han, Wei Jeng

Language: English

Topic: scientometrics and bibliometrics research

Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W161720860

FWCI: 1.095

Cites: 6

Cited by: 1

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