Research Contribution Metric (p)

Definition: Type of semantometric measure assessing similarity of publications connected in a citation network. This method uses a simple formula to assess authors’ contributions. Publication p can be estimated based on the semantic distance from the publications cited by p to publications citing p.

Related term: Semantometrics

References:

  • Knoth and Herrmannova (2014)
  • Holcombe (2019)
  • Larivière et al. (2016)

Originally drafted by: Alaa AlDoh

Reviewed by: Michele C. Lim, Jamie P. Cockcroft, Micah Vandegrift, Dominik Kiersz