Abstract
The effective evaluation of the impact of a scholarly article is a significant endeavor; for this reason, it has garnered attention. From the perspective of knowledge flow, this paper extracted various knowledge flow patterns concealed in articles citation counts to describe the citation impact of the articles. First, the intensity characteristic of knowledge flow was investigated to distinguish the different citation vitality of articles. Second, the knowledge diffusion capacity was examined to differentiate the size of the scope of articles’ influences on the academic environment. Finally, the knowledge transfer capacity was discussed to investigate the support degree of articles on the follow-up research. Experimental results show that articles got more citations recently have a higher knowledge flow intensity. The articles have various impacts on the academic environment and have different supporting effects on the follow-up research, representing the differences in their knowledge diffusion and knowledge transfer capabilities. Compared with the single quantitative index of citation frequency, these knowledge flow patterns can carefully explore the citation value of articles. By integrating the three knowledge flow patterns to examine the total citation impact of articles, we found that the articles exhibit distinct value of citation impact even if they were published in the same field, in the same year, and with similar citation frequencies.
Highlights
The effective evaluation of the impact of a scholarly article is an important research topic, as promotions in the assessment of academia and research grants usually ascribe a significant amount of weight to the impact of an individual’s publication record [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9].Researchers have proposed a variety of bibliometrics performance indicators to measure the impact of a single scholarly publication or a set of such publications
The results show that the knowledge diffusion ability and the overall knowledge diffusion performance of the articles are completely different in each dimension of F, even if they have the same or similar citation counts
The purpose of this paper was to highlight that the citation count of articles should be seen as a single number, but consideration should be given to the process of knowledge flow hidden behind the number of citations
Summary
The effective evaluation of the impact of a scholarly article is an important research topic, as promotions in the assessment of academia and research grants usually ascribe a significant amount of weight to the impact of an individual’s publication record [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Researchers have proposed a variety of bibliometrics performance indicators to measure the impact of a single scholarly publication or a set of such publications. These indicators can be classified into two main categories. The first category is citation-based indicators where a citation count becomes the most widely used citation-based index to measure the scientific impact of an article [10,11,12].
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