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Authors' status and the perceived quality of their work: Measuring citation sentiment change in nobel articles

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  • Erjia Yan
  • Zheng Chen
  • Kai Li

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Prior research in status ordering has used numeric indicators to examine the impact of a status change on the perception of a scientist's work. This study measures the perception change directly as reflected in citation sentiment, with the attainment of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry or a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine considered the status change. The article identifies 12,393 citances to 25 Nobel articles in PubMed Central and includes a control article set of 75 articles with 30,851 citances. The results show a moderate increase in citation sentiment toward Nobel articles postaward. Dynamically, for Nobel articles there is a steady sentiment increase, and a Nobel Prize seems to co‐occur with this trend. This trend, however, is not evident in the control article set.

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  • Erjia Yan & Zheng Chen & Kai Li, 2020. "Authors' status and the perceived quality of their work: Measuring citation sentiment change in nobel articles," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 71(3), pages 314-324, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jinfst:v:71:y:2020:i:3:p:314-324
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.24237
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    1. Jingda Ding & Yifan Chen & Chao Liu, 2023. "Exploring the research features of Nobel laureates in Physics based on the semantic similarity measurement," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(9), pages 5247-5275, September.
    2. Linhong Xu & Kun Ding & Yuan Lin, 2022. "Do negative citations reduce the impact of cited papers?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(2), pages 1161-1186, February.
    3. Heng Huang & Donghua Zhu & Xuefeng Wang, 2022. "Evaluating scientific impact of publications: combining citation polarity and purpose," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(9), pages 5257-5281, September.
    4. Wen Lou & Jiangen He & Lingxin Zhang & Zhijie Zhu & Yongjun Zhu, 2023. "Support behind the scenes: the relationship between acknowledgement, coauthor, and citation in Nobel articles," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(10), pages 5767-5790, October.
    5. Linhong Xu & Kun Ding & Yuan Lin & Chunbo Zhang, 2023. "Does citation polarity help evaluate the quality of academic papers?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(7), pages 4065-4087, July.
    6. Jialiang Lin & Yao Yu & Jiaxin Song & Xiaodong Shi, 2022. "Detecting and analyzing missing citations to published scientific entities," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(5), pages 2395-2412, May.

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