New measures for evaluating creativity in scientific publications

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The goal of our research is to understand how ideas propagate, combine and are created in large social networks.

• In this work, we look at a sample of relevant scientific publications in the area of high-frequency analog circuit design and their citation distribution.
• A novel aspect of our work is the way in which we categorize citations based on the reason and place of it in a publication.
• We created seven citation categories from general domain references, references to specific methods used in the same domain problem, references to an analysis method, references for experimental comparison and so on.