From Citation count to Argumentation count: a new metric to indicate the usefulness of an article

TL;DR

This paper proposes argumentation count, a new metric for assessing article usefulness by analyzing the quality of citations through argumentation, offering a potentially more meaningful alternative to traditional citation counts.

Contribution

The paper introduces argumentation count, a novel triplet-based metric that evaluates the quality of citations to better measure an article's usefulness.

Findings

Argumentation count provides a more nuanced measure of article usefulness.

It captures the quality of citations rather than just quantity.

The metric offers insights into the strength of an article's influence.

Abstract

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.