@inproceedings{bbe0505d41c74a33bc0f77962e8ae82e,
title = "Citation Distance: Measuring Changes in Scientific Search Strategies",
abstract = "Using latent semantic analysis on the full text of scientific articles, we measure the distance between 36 million citing/cited article pairs and chart changes in citation proximity over time. The analysis shows that the mean distance between citing and cited articles has steadily increased since 1990. This demonstrates that current scholars are more likely to cite distantly related research than their peers of 20 years ago who tended to cite more proximate work. These changes coincide with the introduction of new information technologies like the Internet, and the increasing popularity of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. The {"}citation distance{"}measure shows promise in improving our understanding of the evolution of knowledge. It also offers a method to add nuance to scholarly impact measures by assessing the extent to which an article influences proximate or distant future work.",
keywords = "citation analysis, citation distance, scholarly impact",
author = "Ryan Whalen and Yun Huang and Craig Tanis and Anup Sawant and Brian Uzzi and Noshir Contractor",
note = "Funding Information: This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number ACI-1053575. Funding Information: This material is based upon work supported by, or in part by, the U. S. Army Research Laboratory and the U. S. Army Research Office under grant numbers W911NF-14-10686 and W911NF-15-1-0577. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).; 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016 ; Conference date: 11-05-2016 Through 15-05-2016",
year = "2016",
month = apr,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1145/2872518.2890515",
language = "English (US)",
series = "WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "419--423",
booktitle = "WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web",
}