Research Contribution as a Measure of Influence

Summary: Proposes 3c-index to quantify researcher influence by measuring cross-community links they establish. Empirical evaluation against standard metrics shows 3c-index outperforms in most cases and serves as a complementary measure of productivity. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5224
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,344 | 7.17%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2914834

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1. Lais M. A. Rocha
2. Mirella M. Moro

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