Title
Exploring Direct Citations Between Citing Publications
Abstract
This article defines and explores the direct citations between citing publications (DCCPs) of a publication. We construct an ego-centred citation network for each paper that contains all of its citing papers and itself, as well as the citation relationships among them. By utilising a large-scale scholarly dataset from the computer science field in the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG-CS) dataset, we find that DCCPs exist universally in medium and highly cited papers. For those papers that have DCCPs, DCCPs do occur frequently; highly cited papers tend to contain more DCCPs than others. Meanwhile, the number of DCCPs of papers published in different years does not vary dramatically. This paper also discusses the relationship between DCCPs and some indirect citation relationships (e.g. co-citation and bibliographic coupling).
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1177/0165551520917654
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Bibliometrics, citation networks, scientometrics
Journal
47
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0165-5515
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Huang11314.41
Yi Bu2104.14
Ying Ding310.96
Wei Lu414435.60