fzal, MT; Maurer, H; Balke, WT; Kulathuramaiyer, N. IEEE. 2009. Improving Citation Mining.

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Afzal, MT; Maurer, H; Balke, WT; Kulathuramaiyer, N. IEEE. 2009. Improving 
Citation Mining. NDT: 2009 FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 
NETWORKED DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: 116-121.presented at 1st International 
Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2009) in Ostrava, CZECH 
REPUBLIC, JUL 28-31, 2009.

Author Full Name(s): Afzal, Muhammad Tanvir; Maurer, Hermann; Balke, Wolf-
Tilo; Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan

Language: English
Document Type: Proceedings Paper

Conference Host: VSB Tech Univ Ostrava, Fac Elect Engn & Comp Sci

KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; INDEXES

Abstract: In recent years the number of citations a paper is receiving is seen 
more and more (maybe too much so) as an important indicator for the quality 
of a paper, the quality of researchers, the quality of journals, etc. Based on 
the number of citations a scholar has received over his lifetime or over the last 
few years various measures have been introduced. The number of citations 
(often without counting self-citations or citations from "minor" sources, in 
whatever way this may be defined), or some measurement based on the 
number of citations (like the h- or the g-factor) are being used to evaluate 
scholars; the citation index of a journal (again with a variety of parameters) is 
seen as measuring the impact of the journal, and hence the importance one 
assigns to publications there, etc. The number of measurements based on 
citation numbers is steadily increasing, and their definition has become a 
science in itself However, they all rest on finding all relevant citations. Thus, 
"citation mining tools" used for the ISI Web of Knowledge, the Citeseer citation 
index, Google scholar or software such as the "publishorperish.com" software 
based on Google scholar, etc., are the critical starting points for all 
measurement efforts. In this paper we show that the current citation mining 
techniques do not discover all relevant citations. We propose a technique that 
increases accuracy substantially and show numeric evaluations for one typical 
journal. It is clear that in the absence of very reliable citation mining tools all 
current measurements based on citation counting should be considered with a 
grain of salt.

Addresses: [Afzal, Muhammad Tanvir; Maurer, Hermann] Graz Univ Technol, 
Inst Informat Syst & Comp Media F, A-8010 Graz, Austria

Reprint Address: Afzal, MT, Graz Univ Technol, Inst Informat Syst & Comp 
Media F, A-8010 Graz, Austria.

E-mail Address: mafzal at iicm.edu; hmaurer at iicm.edu; balke at ifis.cs.tu-bs.de; 
nara at fit.unimas.my
ISBN: 978-1-4244-4614-8
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5272186