Journal Article: “Bibliometrics Beyond Citations: Introducing Mention Extraction and Analysis”
The article linked below (full text) was recently published by Scientometrics.
Title
Bibliometrics Beyond Citations: Introducing Mention Extraction and Analysis
Authors
Eugenio Petrovich
University of Turin
Sander Verhaegh
University of Tilburg
Gregor Bös
University of Tilburg
Claudia Cristalli
University of Tilburg
Fons Dewulf
University of Tilburg
Ties van Gemert
University of Tilburg
Nina IJdens
University of Tilburg
Source
Scientometrics (2024)
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05116-x
Abstract
Standard citation-based bibliometric tools have severe limitations when they are applied to periods in the history of science and the humanities before the advent of now-current citation practices. This paper presents an alternative method involving the extracting and analysis of mentions to map and analyze links between scholars and texts in periods that fall outside the scope of citation-based studies. Focusing on one specific discipline in one particular period and language area—Anglophone philosophy between 1890 and 1979—we describe a procedure to create a mention index by identifying, extracting, and disambiguating mentions in academic publications. Our mention index includes 1,095,765 mention links, extracted from 22,977 articles published in 12 journals. We successfully link 93% of these mentions to specific philosophers, with an estimated precision of 82% to 91%. Moreover, we integrate the mention index into a database named EDHIPHY, which includes data and metadata from multiple sources and enables multidimensional mention analyses. In the final part of the paper, we present four case studies conducted by domain experts, demonstrating the use and the potential of both EDHIPHY and mention analyses more generally.
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