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 Drexel University, Associate Professor Chaomei Chen Earns Top Ratings for CiteSpace Paper
The iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology


A recent bibliometric analysis by Judit Bar-Ilan revealed that among 1,459 papers published between 2001 and 2010 in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), a paper authored by iSchool Associate Professor Chaomei Chen was rated as the fifth top-cited paper according to citation counts in the Web of Science and in SciVerse Scopus (the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature).

The 2006 JASIST paper, titled "CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature," introduced CiteSpace II-an application developed by Dr. Chen that visualizes and analyzes trends and patterns in scientific literature. The paper is also the 5th top-read JASIST article according to Mendeley reader counts, and the third top-cited paper according to Google Scholar.

Click here to read the full report: http://asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-12/AugSep12_Bar-Ilan.pdf