Abstract:

Based on the basic theory of citation analysis, citation context analysis takes the mining and research on the citaiton frequency, citation location and the text topic of citation content from citing articles in fulltext to referenced fragments by the method of text mining and natural language processing. Starting form the concept of citation context, this paper discusses the general relationship between citation context analysis and citation analysis. Citation context analysis is more detailed than citation description analysis, and then has been the new stage of the theory of citation analysis. Then, the paper expounds its comparative advantage prior to citation description analysis from the perpectives of descirptive statistics of citation and citation network. Topic analysis based on the citation text is the unique advantage of citation context analysis. In the end, we sum up the basic framework of citation context analysis, and point out the four research orientations in the future.

Key words: Citation content analysis, Citation analysis, Citation description analysis, Citation frequency analysis, Citation location analysis, Citantion content text analysis