Longitudinal Citation Prediction using Temporal Graph Neural Networks

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Citation count prediction is the task of predicting the number of citations a paper has gained after a period of time. Prior work viewed this as a static prediction task. As papers and their citations evolve over time, considering the dynamics of the number of citations a paper will receive would seem logical. Here, we introduce the task of sequence citation prediction, where the goal is to accurately predict the trajectory of the number of citations a scholarly work receives over time. We propose to view papers as a structured network of citations, allowing us to use topological information as a learning signal. Additionally, we learn how this dynamic citation network changes over time and the impact of paper meta-data such as authors, venues and abstracts. To approach the introduced task, we derive a dynamic citation network from Semantic Scholar which spans over 42 years. We present a model which exploits topological and temporal information using graph convolution networks paired with sequence prediction, and compare it against multiple baselines, testing the importance of topological and temporal information and analyzing model performance. Our experiments show that leveraging both the temporal and topological information greatly increases the performance of predicting citation counts over time.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Workshop on Scientific Document Understanding co-located with 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Inteligence (AAAI 2022)
Number of pages8
PublisherCEUR
Publication date2022
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22) / The second workshop on advances, resources, tools and challenges of scientific document understanding - Online
Duration: 1 Mar 2022 → …

Conference

Conference36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22) / The second workshop on advances, resources, tools and challenges of scientific document understanding
ByOnline
Periode01/03/2022 → …
SeriesCEUR Workshop Proceedings
ISSN1613-0073

ID: 339338759