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20152024
most citedGeographies of an online social network

105 citations · 154 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.DL2024★ 1 cited

Measuring Research Interest Similarity with Transition Probabilities

Attila Varga, Sadamori Kojaku, Filipi Nascimento Silva

We introduce a family of paper and author similarity measures based on the concept that papers are more similar if they are more likely to be retrieved during a literature search f…

cs.DL2022★ 10 cited

The narrowing of literature use and the restricted mobility of papers in the sciences

Attila Varga

It is a matter of debate whether a shrinking proportion of scholarly literature is getting most of the references over time. It is also less well understood how a narrowing literat…

cs.SI2019★ 32 cited

Shorter Distances between Papers over Time are Due to More Cross-Field References and Increased Citation Rate to Higher Impact Papers

Attila Varga

The exponential increase in the number of scientific publications raises the question of whether the sciences are expanding into a fractured structure, making cross-field communica…

cs.DL2018★ 6 cited

Novelty and Foreseeing Research Trends; The Case of Astrophysics and Astronomy

Attila Varga

Metrics based on reference lists of research articles or on keywords have been used to predict citation impact. The concept behind such metrics is that original ideas stem from the…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 105 cited

Geographies of an online social network

Balázs Lengyel, Attila Varga, Bence Ságvári +2

How is online social media activity structured in the geographical space? Recent studies have shown that in spite of earlier visions about the "death of distance", physical proximi…