Measuring direct and indirect authorial influence in historical corpora

Moshe Koppel; Nadav Schweitzer

doi:10.1002/asi.23118

Measuring direct and indirect authorial influence in historical corpora

Moshe Koppel, Nadav Schweitzer

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We show how automatically extracted citations in historical corpora can be used to measure the direct and indirect influence of authors on each other. These measures can in turn be used to determine an author's overall prominence in the corpus and to identify distinct schools of thought. We apply our methods to two major historical corpora. Using scholarly consensus as a gold standard, we demonstrate empirically the superiority of indirect influence over direct influence as a basis for various measures of authorial impact.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2138-2144
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Volume	65
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23118
State	Published - 1 Oct 2014
Externally published	Yes

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knowledge

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Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems and Management
Library and Information Sciences

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