Structured Citation Trend Prediction Using Graph Neural Networks

Abstract

Academic citation graphs represent citation relationships between publications across the full range of academic fields. Top cited papers typically reveal future trends in their corresponding domains which is of importance to both researchers and practitioners. Prior citation prediction methods often require initial citation trends to be established and do not take advantage of the recent advancements in graph neural networks (GNNs). We present GNN-based architecture that predicts the top set of papers at the time of publication. For experiments, we curate a set of academic citation graphs for a variety of conferences and show that the proposed model outperforms other classic machine learning models in terms of the F1-score.

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No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 28 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.