Table 2 Input features.

From: Impact of medical technologies may be predicted using constructed graph bibliometrics

Variable

Description

Citations per paper

Mean number of citations per paper for papers the author has published

Δ Citations per paper

Change in the mean number of citations per paper for the author over the preceding 2 years

Citations per year

Average number of citations per year for papers the author has published

Maximum citations

Maximum number of citations a paper has received out of all the papers the author has currently published

Rank citations per year

Rank of the author among all other authors in terms of mean citations per year

Total citations

Number of citations author has received

Δ Total citations

Change in the total number of citations for the author over the preceding 2 years

Total papers

Total number of papers published by the author

Δ Total papers

Change in the total number of papers over the preceding 2 years

Citations

Citations collected in the current year

Adopters

Number of unique citing authors in the current year

Author age

Number of years since the year of publication of the author’s first paper

h-index

Author’s h-index

Δ h-index

Change in the author’s h-index over the past 2 years

Recent coauthors

Number of coauthors the author has had in the current and immediately preceding year

Δ Mean journal citations per paper

Two-year change in the mean number of citations per paper of the journals the author has published in

Mean journal citations per paper

Mean number of citations per paper for the journals the author has published in

Δ Mean journal h-index

Two-year change in the mean h-index for the journals the author has published in

Mean journal h-index

Mean h-index for the journals the author has published in

Mean journal maximum citations

Mean of the maximum number of citations any paper published in a journal has received for each journal the author has published in

Mean journal rank citations per paper

Rank of journal in which the author has published, as determined by the mean number of citations per paper

Mean Δ journal total papers

Change in the mean of the total number of papers published in journals the author has published in

Total journals

Total number of journals published in by the author

Mean journal total papers

Mean of the total number of papers published in journals the author has published in

Learned network embedding

Unsupervised embedding of local network structure calculated via application of the node2vec algorithm on the citation graph

Time-rescaled node centrality

Time-balanced network centrality calculated using the full citation network

Unweighted PageRank

PageRank score of author, calculated on the unweighted coauthorship network

Weighted PageRank

PageRank score of author, calculated on the weighted coauthorship network

  1. Adapted from Ref.16.