On the Connection Between Citation-based and Topical Relevance Ranking: Results of a Pretest using iSearch.
Zeljko Carevic, Philipp Schaer · 2014
Abstract. In Information Retrieval a lot of work and effort was put into the ex-ploitation of textual information. Alternative approaches like citation search strategies make use of structural information that can be found in digital librar-ies or scientific information systems. One dataset containing structural infor-mation and everything needed for an IR evaluation is the iSearch test collection. Given this test collection we investigate its suitability with a special interest in bibliometric methods like citation analysis. By using co-citation recommenda-tions we look for a topical connection between the seed document (which is known to be relevant to the given topic) and the recommended documents.