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Modeling time-dependent and -independent indicators to facilitate identification of breakthrough research papers

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  • Holly N. Wolcott

    (Thomson Reuters)

  • Matthew J. Fouch

    (Thomson Reuters)

  • Elizabeth R. Hsu

    (National Cancer Institute)

  • Leo G. DiJoseph

    (Thomson Reuters)

  • Catherine A. Bernaciak

    (Thomson Reuters)

  • James G. Corrigan

    (National Cancer Institute)

  • Duane E. Williams

    (ÜberResearch)

Abstract

Research funding organizations invest substantial resources to monitor mission-relevant research findings to identify and support promising new lines of inquiry. To that end, we have been pursuing the development of tools to identify research publications that have a strong likelihood of driving new avenues of research. This paper describes our work towards incorporating multiple time-dependent and -independent features of publications into a model to identify candidate breakthrough papers as early as possible following publication. We used multiple random forest models to assess the ability of indicators to reliably distinguish a gold standard set of breakthrough publications as identified by subject matter experts from among a comparison group of similar Thomson Reuters Web of Science™ publications. These indicators were then tested for their predictive value in random forest models. Model parameter optimization and variable selection were used to construct a final model based on indicators that can be measured within 6 months post-publication; the final model had an estimated true positive rate of 0.77 and false positive rate of 0.01.

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  • Holly N. Wolcott & Matthew J. Fouch & Elizabeth R. Hsu & Leo G. DiJoseph & Catherine A. Bernaciak & James G. Corrigan & Duane E. Williams, 2016. "Modeling time-dependent and -independent indicators to facilitate identification of breakthrough research papers," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 107(2), pages 807-817, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:107:y:2016:i:2:d:10.1007_s11192-016-1861-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1861-1
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