Paper Info
Title
Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time.
Abstract
Assessing the influence of a scholaru0027s work is an important task for funding organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as measures of citation counts, can ignore much of the nuance and multidimensionality of scholarly influence. We present an approach for generating dynamic visualizations of scholarsu0027 careers. This approach uses an animated node-link diagram showing the citation network accumulated around the researcher over the course of the career in concert with key indicators, highlighting influence both within and across fields. We developed our design in collaboration with one funding organization---the Pew Biomedical Scholars program---but the methods are generalizable to visualizations of scholarly influence. We applied the design method to the Microsoft Academic Graph, which includes more than 120 million publications. We validate our abstractions throughout the process through collaboration with the Pew Biomedical Scholars program officers and summative evaluations with their scholars.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3389/frma.2017.00008
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
Field
DocType
Volume
Graph drawing,Data science,Graph,Data mining,World Wide Web,Information visualization,Summative assessment,Computer science,Citation,Citation network,Bibliometrics,Scientometrics
Journal
abs/1611.07135
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jason Portenoy121.04
Jessica Hullman247726.51
Jevin D. West330227.78