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Correlation between references and citations in artificial intelligence: A preliminary study.
- Source :
- Proceedings of the Association for Information Science & Technology; Oct2020, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p1-4, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- To reveal whether there exists a correlation between the number of references and the number of citations in a paper of the Artificial Intelligenceārelated conference, we present an experiment based on a total number of 9,458 papers published in CVPR, ICML, and AAAI from the year 2014 to 2018. Spearman's rank correlation tests show that the number of references and that of the citations are correlated with a correlation coefficient of 0.435, 0.464, and 0.180 respectively, in each p <.01. This means an increasing number of references in a paper may be contributing to the increase in citations. However, citing more references does not guarantee that a paper will be a highly cited paper. We hope this finding can provide a basis for the prediction of the citation impact of the Artificial Intelligence conference papers in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23739231
- Volume :
- 57
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Association for Information Science & Technology
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 146607615
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.403