Research Contribution Metric (p)
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
References: 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