Ding, Ying; Liu, Xiaozhong; Guo, Chun; Cronin, Blaise - In: Journal of Informetrics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 583-592
In citation network analysis, complex behavior is reduced to a simple edge, namely, node A cites node B. The implicit assumption is that A is giving credit to, or acknowledging, B. It is also the case that the contributions of all citations are treated equally, even though some citations appear...