An Analysis of Zero-cited and Highly-cited Papers in the Perspective of Research Topics: A Case Study of Environmental Science

  • Pan Fei ,
  • Wang Xiaoyue ,
  • Bai Rujiang ,
  • Zhou Yanting
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  • Institute of Scientific & Technical Information, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049

Received date: 2018-03-15

  Revised date: 2018-06-08

  Online published: 2018-10-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] This paper analyzes zero-cited papers in the field of environmental science from the perspective of the subject, to find the differences in the content of articles and external indicators between zero-quoted papers and high-cited papers and reveal the reason for the existence of zero-cited papers.[Method/process] Firstly, the PLDA model was used to identify topics that from 260 high-cited papers and 907 zero-cited papers in the domestic environmental sciences database from the Web of Science database. Then the relevance of the topics was found through topic similarity calculation. With the topic popularity used as an internal indicator, the time of publication and the journals used as external evaluation indicators, a comparison analysis of zero-cited papers and high-cited papers was made by combining topical of the papers with external indicators.[Result/conclusion] The experimental results show that under the same research topic, the influence of the journal is the main reason that influences the citation of the paper; under different topics, the topic is the main reason leading to zero-cited papers.

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Pan Fei , Wang Xiaoyue , Bai Rujiang , Zhou Yanting . An Analysis of Zero-cited and Highly-cited Papers in the Perspective of Research Topics: A Case Study of Environmental Science[J]. Library and Information Service, 2018 , 62(20) : 77 -87 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2018.20.009

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