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most citedA review on the novelty measurements of academic papers

26 citations · 108 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

SurveyAgent-HKA: A multi-agent framework for scientific survey generation with LLMs and human knowledge augmentation

Tong Bao, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Yi Zhao +2

Automatic scientific survey generation has become an important task in scientific document processing. The common approach of retrieving literature from a single source (e.g., arXi…

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.DL2026★ 21 cited

Gender Differences in Research Topic and Method Selection in Library and Information Science: Perspectives from Three Top Journals

Chengzhi Zhang, Siqi Wei, Yi Zhao +1

Research in the social sciences has shown that there are gender differences in the selection of research methods, with women often opting for qualitative methods while men prefer q…

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.DL2026★ 9 cited

Is Higher Team Gender Diversity Correlated with Better Scientific Impact?

Chengzhi Zhang, Jiaqi Zeng, Yi Zhao

Collaborative research involving scholars of various genders constitutes a prominent theme in scientific research that has garnered substantial attention. While several studies hav…

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.CL2026

NovBench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Academic Paper Novelty Assessment

Wenqing Wu, Yi Zhao, Yuzhuo Wang +4

Novelty is a core requirement in academic publishing and a central focus of peer review, yet the growing volume of submissions has placed increasing pressure on human reviewers. Wh…

cs.DL2026

Exploring Novelty Differences between Industry and Academia: A Knowledge Entity-centric Perspective

Hongye Zhao, Yi Zhao, Chengzhi Zhang

Academia and industry each possess distinct advantages in advancing technological progress. Academia's core mission is to promote open dissemination of research results and drive d…

cs.CL2026

Quantifying the Knowledge Proximity Between Academic and Industry Research: An Entity and Semantic Perspective

Hongye Zhao, Yi Zhao, Chengzhi Zhang

The academia and industry are characterized by a reciprocal shaping and dynamic feedback mechanism. Despite distinct institutional logics, they have adapted closely in collaborativ…

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★ 10 cited

SC4ANM: Identifying Optimal Section Combinations for Automated Novelty Prediction in Academic Papers

Wenqing Wu, Chengzhi Zhang, Tong Bao +1

Novelty is a core component of academic papers, and there are multiple perspectives on the assessment of novelty. Existing methods often focus on word or entity combinations, which…

cs.CL2025

Examining Linguistic Shifts in Academic Writing Before and After the Launch of ChatGPT: A Study on Preprint Papers

Tong Bao, Yi Zhao, Jin Mao +1

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have prompted academic concerns about their impact on academic writing. Existing studies have primarily examined LLM usage in academi…

cs.DL2025★ 26 cited

A review on the novelty measurements of academic papers

Yi Zhao, Chengzhi Zhang

Novelty evaluation is vital for the promotion and management of innovation. With the advancement of information techniques and the open data movement, some progress has been made i…

cs.DL2021★ 21 cited

Is Coronavirus-Related Research Becoming More Interdisciplinary? A Perspective of Co-occurrence Analysis and Diversity Measure of Scientific Articles

Yi Zhao, Lifan Liu, Chengzhi Zhang

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a significant repercussion on the health, economy, politics and environment, making coronavirus-related issues more comp…