From Citation count to Argumentation count: a new metric to indicate the usefulness of an article
This addresses the need for better quality indicators in academic evaluation, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing citation analysis.
The authors tackled the problem of citation count not guaranteeing article quality by proposing argumentation count, a new metric using triplets for each concept to quantify article usefulness.
Citation count is a quantifiable measure to indicate the number of times an article is cited by other articles. It is believed that if an article is cited often then it must be an important or influential article; however, there is no guarantee that the most cited articles are good in quality. In this paper, the author suggests argumentation count, a new metric for citation analysis. The proposed metric, argumentation count is a triplet of quantities for each concept of an article that helps in providing a quantifiable measure about the usefulness of an article.