Title
Heterogeneous dynamical academic network for learning scientific impact propagation
Abstract
Quantifying and predicting the long-term impact of both scientific papers and individual authors have important implications for many academic policy decisions, from identifying emerging trends to assessing the merits of proposals for potential funding. This paper presents SI-HDGNN, a novel heterogeneous dynamical graph neural network that explicitly models a heterogeneous, weighted, directed and attributed academic graph, enabling a prediction of the cumulative scientific impact of papers and authors by a specifically designed aggregation method. Unlike the existing feature-based or homogeneous approaches, SI-HDGNN addresses the problem by capturing the temporal–structural characteristics of the papers and authors as well as their complex interactions and long-term dependencies. Extensive experiments conducted on three large-scale multidisciplinary academic datasets demonstrate its superior performance in predicting the long-term scientific impact of both scientific papers and authors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.knosys.2021.107839
Knowledge-Based Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Scientific impact prediction,Heterogeneous information network,Graph neural network,Information diffusion,Science of science
Journal
238
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0950-7051
0
0.34
References 
Authors
39
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xu Xovee1105.61
Zhong Ting24611.07
Ce Li331.46
Goce Trajcevski41732141.26
Fan Zhou510123.20