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SUBMITTER: Bai X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5875758 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bai Xiaomei X Zhang Fuli F Hou Jie J Lee Ivan I Kong Xiangjie X Tolba Amr A Xia Feng F
PloS one 20180329 3
Quantifying the impact of a scholarly paper is of great significance, yet the effect of geographical distance of cited papers has not been explored. In this paper, we examine 30,596 papers published in Physical Review C, and identify the relationship between citations and geographical distances between author affiliations. Subsequently, a relative citation weight is applied to assess the impact of a scholarly paper. A higher-order weighted quantum PageRank algorithm is also developed to address ...[more]