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    Research Contribution Metric (p)

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    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, P., & Herrmannova, D. (2014). Towards semantometrics: A new semantic similarity based measure for assessing a research publication’s contribution. D-Lib Magazine, 20(11), 8. https://doi.org/10.1045/november2014-knoth
    • Holcombe, A. O. (2019). Contributorship, not authorship: Use CRediT to indicate who did what. Publications, 7(3), 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7030048
    • Larivière, V., Desrochers, N., Macaluso, B., et al. (2016). Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production. Social Studies of Science, 46(3), 417–435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312716650046

    Originally drafted by: Alaa AlDoh

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

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