Feature: Author productivity (ProAuth)

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ProAuth

"Yan et al. [23] noticed that the more papers an author publishes (productivity of the author), the higher average citation counts she can expect. Therefore, for each paper, we calculate the productivity of its authors (ProAuth) that indeed indicates how the influence of productive authors regulates the citation profile of a paper."

Pseudocode:

Either from external database or

• For each paper, change the author variable to a list with every author name in the form 'A. Vries';
• i.e. if more than one word in author's name, look for first letter, else take X as first letter (i.e. unknown first name); add a dot, to first letter; take last word as last name,
• Make a 'database' / Add to existing database (for validation & test set) with every unique author name in the form of 'A. Vries'
• For every paper in the dataset, look at each author and add 1 to ProAuth (number of published papers for each author).

Statistics:

• Check to see if there is indeed a relationship between ProAuth and number of average citations.

Reference:

Chakraborty, T., Kumar, S., Goyal, P., Ganguly, N., & Mukherjee, A., (2014). Towards a Stratified Learning Approach to Predict Future Citation Counts, IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 351 - 360. doi: 10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970190

Yan et al. (see references Chakraborty et al., (2014)).

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Implemented in the author_database function, as that was easier than to (re)write a duplicate function.