Topic-adjusted visibility metric for scientific articles

DOI10.1214/15-AOAS887zbMATH Open1358.62114arXiv1502.07190OpenAlexW3099600975WikidataQ125337839 ScholiaQ125337839MaRDI QIDQ288549FDOQ288549

Authors: Linda S. L. Tan, Aik Hui Chan, Tian Zheng 

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Measuring the impact of scientific articles is important for evaluating the research output of individual scientists, academic institutions and journals. While citations are raw data for constructing impact measures, there exist biases and potential issues if factors affecting citation patterns are not properly accounted for. In this work, we address the problem of field variation and introduce an article level metric useful for evaluating individual articles' visibility. This measure derives from joint probabilistic modeling of the content in the articles and the citations amongst them using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) and the mixed membership stochastic blockmodel (MMSB). Our proposed model provides a visibility metric for individual articles adjusted for field variation in citation rates, a structural understanding of citation behavior in different fields, and article recommendations which take into account article visibility and citation patterns. We develop an efficient algorithm for model fitting using variational methods. To scale up to large networks, we develop an online variant using stochastic gradient methods and case-control likelihood approximation. We apply our methods to the benchmark KDD Cup 2003 dataset with approximately 30,000 high energy physics papers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07190

Recommendations

• Exploring and understanding citation-based scientific metrics
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6476017
• Publication:4733445
• A review of theory and practice in scientometrics
• The Measurement of Intellectual Influence

zbMATH Keywords

variational Bayesarticle level metriccitation network modelslatent Dirichlet allocation (LDA)mixed membership stochastic blockmodel (MMSB)stochastic blockmodelsstochastic variational inference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Applications of statistics (62P99) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Bibliographic studies (01A90)

Cites Work

• Distributed multinomial regression
• Statistical analysis of network data. Methods and models
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Mixed membership stochastic blockmodels
• A Stochastic Approximation Method
• 10.1162/jmlr.2003.3.4-5.993
• Multinomial Inverse Regression for Text Analysis
• An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output
• Introduction to Stochastic Search and Optimization
• Hierarchical relational models for document networks
• Variational inference for large-scale models of discrete choice
• Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
• An introduction to variational methods for graphical models
• Topic-adjusted visibility metric for scientific articles
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A multiscale community blockmodel for network exploration
• Efficient discovery of overlapping communities in massive networks

Cited In (4)

• Topic-adjusted visibility metric for scientific articles
• Variational Bayesian inference for bipartite mixed-membership stochastic block model with applications to collaborative filtering
• PCABM: Pairwise Covariates-Adjusted Block Model for Community Detection
• Cross-evaluation of metrics to estimate the significance of creative works

Uses Software

• lda

This page was built for publication: Topic-adjusted visibility metric for scientific articles

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q288549)