A Comparison of On-Line Computer Science Citation Databases

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dc.creatorPetricek, Vaclav
dc.creatorCox, Ingemar J.
dc.creatorHan, Hui
dc.creatorCouncill, Isaac G.
dc.creatorGiles, C. Lee
dc.date2007-03-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:51:04Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:51:04Z
dc.descriptionThis paper examines the difference and similarities between the two on-line computer science citation databases DBLP and CiteSeer. The database entries in DBLP are inserted manually while the CiteSeer entries are obtained autonomously via a crawl of the Web and automatic processing of user submissions. CiteSeer's autonomous citation database can be considered a form of self-selected on-line survey. It is important to understand the limitations of such databases, particularly when citation information is used to assess the performance of authors, institutions and funding bodies. We show that the CiteSeer database contains considerably fewer single author papers. This bias can be modeled by an exponential process with intuitive explanation. The model permits us to predict that the DBLP database covers approximately 24% of the entire literature of Computer Science. CiteSeer is also biased against low-cited papers. Despite their difference, both databases exhibit similar and significantly different citation distributions compared with previous analysis of the Physics community. In both databases, we also observe that the number of authors per paper has been increasing over time.
dc.descriptionECDL 2005
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0703043
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0703043
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/125383
dc.subjectDigital Libraries
dc.subjectH.3.7
dc.titleA Comparison of On-Line Computer Science Citation Databases
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