Research Contribution Metric (*p*)

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Definition: Type of semantometric measure assessing similarity of publications connected in a citation network. This method uses a simple formula to assess authors’ contributions. Publication p can be estimated based on the semantic distance from the publications cited by p to publications citing p.

Related term: Semantometrics

Reference: Knoth and Herrmannova (2014); Holcombe (2019); Larivière et al. (2016)

Drafted and Reviewed by: Alaa AlDoh, Michele C. Lim, Jamie P. Cockcroft, Micah Vandegrift, Dominik Kiersz ### — ####

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