Citation Impact Categorization: For Scientific Literature

Citation counting is a method to compute impact factor in scientific literature, many authors have criticized this only counting methods because they consider all citation as equal. If a paper´s reputation is simply evaluated according to the number of its citations, then incomplete, incorrect or controversial articles may be promoted regardless of their relevance. We developed an annotated corpus with our own scheme and then classify citation function and polarity. Afterwards, in this paper, we present an approach to categorize citation impact using these data and other information extracted from a paper. We compared our results with responses from a citation impact survey addressed to authors. Author´s feedback closely correlates with our outcomes.