Indexed by:Conference Paper

Date of Publication:2015-01-01

Included Journals:CPCI-S

Page Number:241-248

Abstract:Citation context was used to measure the influence of highly cited papers. The themes of citation context were analyzed with bibliometrics methods. The citation context was classified into three categories as positive, negative and neutral. And the neutral citations were also classified into three sub categories, related work in background or introduction, theoretical foundation, and experimental foundation. The citation contexts of a highly cited paper of O'Keefe were extracted as the experiment data set. The results showed that the co-occurrence method was very useful for describing the themes of the citation contexts. The citation contexts of the selected paper were divided into five themes. The classification of citation contexts could provide more information about how and why a paper was highly cited. There was no negative citation in this experiment, and more than 10% citation contexts were positive citation. About 50% of the neutral citations were belonging to related work in background or introduction. The detailed influence of the target paper was also illustrated in our research.