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most citedRevealing the Technology Development of Natural Language Processing: A Scientific Entity-Centric Perspective

39 citations · 101 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.DL2026

Measuring the Novelty of Biomedical Papers Using the Latent Distances between Knowledge Units

Yi Zhao, Heng Zhang, Yuzhuo Wang +3

Measuring the novelty of scientific papers is a central concern in research evaluation and scientometrics. From a recombination perspective, prior studies have largely focused on t…

cs.CL2026

Enhancing Scientific Named Entity Recognition via Large Language Models: A Type-driven Multi-task Learning Approach

Tong Bao, Yi Zhao, Heng Zhang +1

Scientific named entity recognition (SciNER) plays a crucial role in information extraction and knowledge discovery from scientific texts. Recently, large language models (LLMs) ha…

cs.CL2026★ 14 cited

Exploring the relationship between team institutional composition and novelty in academic papers based on fine-grained knowledge entities

Ziling Chen, Chengzhi Zhang, Heng Zhang +3

The composition of author teams is an important factor influencing the novelty of academic papers. However, existing studies have paid limited attention to the role of institutiona…

cs.CL2026★ 39 cited

Revealing the Technology Development of Natural Language Processing: A Scientific Entity-Centric Perspective

Heng Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang, Yuzhuo Wang

Most studies on technology development have been conducted from a thematic perspective, but the topics are coarse-grained and insufficient to accurately represent technology. The d…

cs.CY2026★ 19 cited

Do more heads imply better performance? An empirical study of team thought leaders' impact on scientific team performance

Yi Zhao, Yuzhuo Wang, Heng Zhang +4

Thought leadership plays a crucial role in boosting team performance; thus, teams with more thought leaders may perform better. However, the impact of the number of thought leaders…

cs.DL2026

Measuring Research Difficulty of Academic Papers: A Case Study in Natural Language Processing

Haochuan Li, Jingyuan Li, Yi Zhao +4

With the rapid growth of the number of academic papers, systematically evaluating the difficulty of research and its relationship to academic impact offers important significance f…

cs.CL2026

Automatic Generation of Highlights for Academic Paper Via Prompt-based Learning

Yi Xiang, Chengzhi Zhang, Heng Zhang

Highlights provide a concise summary of the main contributions of an academic paper and help readers quickly understand its focus. However, many journals do not provide highlights,…

cs.DL2026

Beyond Single-Dimension Novelty: How Combinations of Theory, Method, and Results-based Novelty Shape Scientific Impact

Yi Zhao, Yang Chenggang, Yuzhuo Wang +3

Scientific novelty drives advances at the research frontier, yet it is also associated with heightened uncertainty and potential resistance from incumbent paradigms, leading to com…

cs.IR2026

Enhancing Academic Paper Recommendations Using Fine-Grained Knowledge Entities and Multifaceted Document Embeddings

Haixu Xi, Heng Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang

In the era of explosive growth in academic literature, the burden of literature review on scholars are increasing. Proactively recommending academic papers that align with scholars…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

The Effect of Gender Diversity on Scientific Team Impact: A Team Roles Perspective

Yi Zhao, Yongjun Zhu, Donghun Kim +4

The influence of gender diversity on the success of scientific teams is of great interest to academia. However, prior findings remain inconsistent, and most studies operationalize…

cs.CL2025

Automated Generation of Research Workflows from Academic Papers: A Full-text Mining Framework

Heng Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang

The automated generation of research workflows is essential for improving the reproducibility of research and accelerating the paradigm of "AI for Science". However, existing metho…

cs.CL2025★ 18 cited

Enhancing Abstractive Summarization of Scientific Papers Using Structure Information

Tong Bao, Heng Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang

Abstractive summarization of scientific papers has always been a research focus, yet existing methods face two main challenges. First, most summarization models rely on Encoder-Dec…

cs.IR2025★ 9 cited

Citation Recommendation based on Argumentative Zoning of User Queries

Shutian Ma, Chengzhi Zhang, Heng Zhang +1

Citation recommendation aims to locate the important papers for scholars to cite. When writing the citing sentences, the authors usually hold different citing intents, which are re…

cs.DL2021

Using Full-text Content of Academic Articles to Build a Methodology Taxonomy of Information Science in China

Heng Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang

Research on the construction of traditional information science methodology taxonomy is mostly conducted manually. From the limited corpus, researchers have attempted to summarize…

cs.IR2021

Chronological Citation Recommendation with Time Preference

Shutian Ma, Heng Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang +1

Citation recommendation is an important task to assist scholars in finding candidate literature to cite. Traditional studies focus on static models of recommending citations, which…