2 papers
cs.DL2012
A bird's-eye view of scientific trading: Dependency relations among fields of science
Erjia Yan, Ying Ding, Blaise Cronin +1
We use a trading metaphor to study knowledge transfer in the sciences as well as the social sciences. The metaphor comprises four dimensions: (a) Discipline Self-dependence, (b) Kn…
cs.DL2010
Popular and/or Prestigious? Measures of Scholarly Esteem
Ying Ding, Blaise Cronin
Citation analysis does not generally take the quality of citations into account: all citations are weighted equally irrespective of source. However, a scholar may be highly cited b…