Identifying Scientific and Technical“Unicorns”

作     者：Lucy L.Xu Miao Qi Fred Y.Ye Lucy L.Xu;Miao Qi;Fred Y.Ye

作者机构：Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge ServiceSchool of Information ManagementNanjing UniversityNanjing 210023China University LibraryNantong UniversityNantong 226019China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Data and Information Science》 (数据与情报科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第6卷第2期

页      面：96-115页

核心收录：

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 0302[法学-政治学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 120502[管理学-情报学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No.71673131 Jiangsu Key Laboratory Fund support from the International Joint Informatics Laboratory operated cooperatively by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA and Nanjing University,China 

主　　题：Unicorn Scientific paper Technical patent Citation analysis Patent analysis 

摘      要：Purpose:Using the metaphor ofunicorn,we identify the scientific papers and technical patents characterized by the informetric feature of very high citations in the first ten years after publishing,which may provide a new pattern to understand very high impact works in science and ***/methodology/approach:When we set CT as the total citations of papers or patents in the first ten years after publication,with CT≥5,000 for scientificunicornand CT≥500 for technicalunicorn,we have an absolute standard for identifying scientific and technicalunicorn***:We identify 165 scientificunicornsin 14,301,875 WoS papers and 224 technicalunicornsin 13,728,950 DII patents during 2001–*** 50%ofunicornsbelong to biomedicine,in which selected cases are individually *** rareunicornsincrease following linear model,the fitting data show 95%confidence with the RMSE of scientificunicornis 0.2127 while the RMSE of technicalunicornis *** limitations:Aunicornis a pure quantitative consideration without concerning its quality,andpotential unicornsas CT≤5,000 for papers and CT≤500 for patents are left in future *** implications:Scientific and technicalunicornsprovide a new pattern to understand high-impact works in science and ***unicornpattern supplies a concise approach to identify very high-impact scientific papers and technical ***/value:Theunicornpattern supplies a concise approach to identify very high impact scientific papers and technical patents.