Hong Chen
banner
hongch.bsky.social
Hong Chen
@hongch.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Michigan School of Information.
Computational Social Science | Science of Science
http://hongcchen.com
1️⃣ Citation fidelity decreases when authors cite an intermediary source as well as the original claim.
2️⃣The fidelity of the intermediary source affects the fidelity of subsequent citations.
March 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Analyzing a multi-disciplinary 42M paper dataset with full-text, we identify 13M pairs of sentences with a citation and the sentence with the corresponding claim in the original paper.

We use supervised models to measure fidelity between these two sentences.
March 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
How accurately do citations reflect the original research? Do authors truly engage with what they cite?

In a new study, we analyze millions of citation sentence pairs to measure citation fidelity and how it varies depending on authors’ engagement with prior literature.

arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581

⬇️
March 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM