4 papers
From Papers to Interpretive Knowledge Nodes: Proposing the Missing Object in Scholarly Knowledge Circulation
Li Li, Yu Cao
The modern scholarly communication system, with the paper at its core, has successfully solidified "research outputs" into citable and traceable scholarly objects. Yet, across the…
From Compressing Complexity to Accommodating Complexity: How AI Transforms Standardization and Individualization
Li Li, Yu Cao
Why do societies composed of individuals pursuing individuality repeatedly generate highly standardized systems? This paper argues that the answer lies in the evolution of informat…
Citation Pathways in the AI Era: Interpretive Knowledge Nodes, Citation Compression Layers, and the Measurement Boundary of Scholarly Impact
Li Li, Yu Cao
This article identifies "citation pathway" as a long-neglected analytical dimension in scientometrics. Traditional evaluation metrics focus on measuring citation counts while payin…
Grade Encoding and the Structural Representation of Student Academic Trajectories
Li Li, Yu Cao
Does the conversion of academic assessment from percentage scores to letter grades merely represent an adjustment in information precision, or does it systematically alter the unde…