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Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time
Jason Portenoy, Jessica Hullman, Jevin D. West
Assessing the influence of a scholar's work is an important task for funding organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as measures of citation coun…
Men Set Their Own Cites High: Gender and Self-citation across Fields and over Time
Molly M. King, Carl T. Bergstrom, Shelley J. Correll +2
How common is self-citation in scholarly publication, and does the practice vary by gender? Using novel methods and a data set of 1.5 million research papers in the scholarly datab…
Static Ranking of Scholarly Papers using Article-Level Eigenfactor (ALEF)
Ian Wesley-Smith, Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
Microsoft Research hosted the 2016 WSDM Cup Challenge based on the Microsoft Academic Graph. The goal was to provide static rankings for the articles that make up the graph, with t…
Predicting Student Dropout in Higher Education
Lovenoor Aulck, Nishant Velagapudi, Joshua Blumenstock +1
Each year, roughly 30% of first-year students at US baccalaureate institutions do not return for their second year and over $9 billion is spent educating these students. Yet, littl…
Viziometrics: Analyzing Visual Information in the Scientific Literature
Po-shen Lee, Jevin D. West, Bill Howe
Scientific results are communicated visually in the literature through diagrams, visualizations, and photographs. These information-dense objects have been largely ignored in bibli…