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Correlational analysis of topic specificity and citations count of publication venues

Ali Daud (IIUI, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Tehmina Amjad (IIUI, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Muazzam Ahmed Siddiqui (King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Naif Radi Aljohani (Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi (Department of Information Systems, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) (Department of Computer Science, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Muhammad Ahtisham Aslam (King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

Library Hi Tech

ISSN: 0737-8831

Article publication date: 11 October 2018

Issue publication date: 7 March 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

Citation analysis is an important measure for the assessment of quality and impact of academic entities (authors, papers and publication venues) used for ranking of research articles, authors and publication venues. It is a common observation that high-level publication venues, with few exceptions (Nature, Science and PLOS ONE), are usually topic specific. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the claim correlation analysis between topic specificity and citation count of different types of publication venues (journals, conferences and workshops).

Design/methodology/approach

The topic specificity was calculated using the information theoretic measure of entropy (which tells us about the disorder of the system). The authors computed the entropy of the titles of the papers published in each venue type to investigate their topic specificity.

Findings

It was observed that venues usually with higher citations (high-level publication venues) have low entropy and venues with lesser citations (not-high-level publication venues) have high entropy. Low entropy means less disorder and more specific to topic and vice versa. The input data considered here were DBLP-V7 data set for the last 10 years. Experimental analysis shows that topic specificity and citation count of publication venues are negatively correlated to each other.

Originality/value

This paper is the first attempt to discover correlation between topic sensitivity and citation counts of publication venues. It also used topic specificity as a feature to rank academic entities.

Keywords

Citation

Daud, A., Amjad, T., Siddiqui, M.A., Aljohani, N.R., Abbasi, R.A. and Aslam, M.A. (2019), "Correlational analysis of topic specificity and citations count of publication venues", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 37 No. 1, pp. 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-03-2018-0042

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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