Journal article
Authors' status and the perceived quality of their work: Measuring citation sentiment change in nobel articles
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, v 71(3), pp 314-324
Mar 2020
Abstract
Prior research in status ordering has used numeric indicators to examine the impact of a status change on the perception of a scientist's work. This study measures the perception change directly as reflected in citation sentiment, with the attainment of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry or a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine considered the status change. The article identifies 12,393 citances to 25 Nobel articles in PubMed Central and includes a control article set of 75 articles with 30,851 citances. The results show a moderate increase in citation sentiment toward Nobel articles postaward. Dynamically, for Nobel articles there is a steady sentiment increase, and a Nobel Prize seems to co‐occur with this trend. This trend, however, is not evident in the control article set.
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- Title
- Authors' status and the perceived quality of their work: Measuring citation sentiment change in nobel articles
- Creators
- Erjia Yan - Drexel UniversityZheng Chen - Drexel UniversityKai Li - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, v 71(3), pp 314-324
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hoboken, USA
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (RE‐07‐15‐0060‐15)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000509628400005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85064597370
- Other Identifier
- 991014976810504721
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