Dervos, DA; Kalkanis, T cc-IFF: A cascading citations impact factor framework for the automatic ranking of research publications 2005 IEEE INTELLIGENT DATA ACQUISITION AND ADVANCED COMPUTING SYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS 668-673, 2005

[Eugene Garfield]

Email Address: dad at it.teithe.gr

Author(s): Dervos, DA (Dervos, Dimitris A.); Kalkanis, T (Kalkanis, 
Thomas) 

Title: cc-IFF: A cascading citations impact factor framework for the 
automatic ranking of research publications 

Source: 2005 IEEE INTELLIGENT DATA ACQUISITION AND ADVANCED COMPUTING 
SYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS 668-673, 2005 

Language: English 

Document Type: Article 

Conference Title: IEEE Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing 
Systems 

Conference Date: SEP 05-07, 2005 

Conference Location: Sofia, BULGARIA 

Conference Sponsors: IEEE, Inst Comp Informat Technol, Ternopil Acad Natl 
Econ, Tech Univ Sofia, Fac Comp Syst & Control, Univ Sofia, Ternopil Acad 
Natl Econ, IEEE Instrumentat & Measurement Soc, Sci & Technol Ctr, IEEE 
Bulgaria Sect, IEEE Comp Chapter Bulgaria Sect 

Author Keywords: citation analysis; citations graph; impact factor; 
research evaluation 

Abstract: A new framework is proposed for the calculation of impact factor 
ratings of research publications (articles). For each one article, a 
corresponding citations graph is constructed in the form of a relational 
table. The impact factor is calculated by considering not only the 
citations made directly to an article, but also citations made to the 
corresponding citing article(s). In this respect, an improved algorithm is 
utilized, namely one that traverses all the threads in the citations 
graph, in an attempt to improve the degree of fairness in assigning credit 
for the quality of each one article. When two articles have an equal 
number of (direct) citations, the one that has triggered more research 
activity (i.e. its citing articles attract a larger number of citations at 
subsequent levels in the citations graph) is assigned a higher impact 
factor rating and, consequently, is ranked to be better. 

Addresses: TEI, Dept Informat Technol, Sindos, 57400 Greece. 

Reprint Address: Dervos, DA, TEI, Dept Informat Technol, POB 141, Sindos, 
57400 Greece. 

Cited Reference Count: 8 

Publisher Name: IEEE 

Publisher Address: 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA 

ISBN: 978-0-7803-9445-2 

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