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From Citation count to Argumentation count: a new metric to indicate the usefulness of an article

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Hardik Joshi

Information Retrieval · Submitted 26 Jun 2014

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The authors' main claim The proposed metric, argumentation count is a triplet of quantities for each concept of an article that helps in providing a quantifiable measure about the usefulness of an article.

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CitationHardik Joshi. "From Citation count to Argumentation count: a new metric to indicate the usefulness of an article." arXiv:1406.6840 (2014). https://pith.science/paper/CMCSSGFI
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Citation count is a quantifiable measure to indicate the number of times an article is cited by other articles. It is believed that if an article is cited often then it must be an important or influential article; however, there is no guarantee that the most cited articles are good in quality. In this paper, the author suggests argumentation count, a new metric for citation analysis. The proposed metric, argumentation count is a triplet of quantities for each concept of an article that helps in providing a quantifiable measure about the usefulness of an article.

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s0 Citation count is a quantifiable measure to indicate the number of times an article is cited by other articles. background 1.00 0.05 0.03 asserted 1.00
s1 It is believed that if an article is cited often then it must be an important or influential article; however, there is no guarantee that the most cited articles are good in quality. background 0.70 0.05 0.04 hedged possibility 0.63
s2 In this paper, the author suggests argumentation count, a new metric for citation analysis. contribution 1.00 0.76 0.22 hedged possibility 0.96
s3 The proposed metric, argumentation count is a triplet of quantities for each concept of an article that helps in providing a quantifiable measure about the usefulness of an article. contribution 0.55 0.70 0.25 asserted 0.93

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Citation count is a quantifiable measure to indicate the number of times an article is cited by other articles. It is believed that if an article is cited often then it must be an important or influential article; however, there is no guarantee that the most cited articles are good in quality. In this paper, the author suggests argumentation count, a new metric for citation analysis. The proposed metric, argumentation count is a triplet of quantities for each concept of an article that helps in providing a quantifiable measure about the usefulness of an article.

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