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INSIGHT · TOP 5 · VELOCITY LAG

Sources where Citation Velocity trails the Index

These sources are quality-strong but slow-cited — often specialist journals, archival sources, or institutions whose authority outlives the citation cycle.

The question

Which sources score well overall but have a notably lower Citation Velocity?

The answer

Semantic Scholar — Velocity -11 vs Index

  1. 1
    Semantic Scholarsemanticscholar.orgAcademic

    AI-powered academic search engine by Allen Institute for AI; ~200M+ papers indexed.

    Disc A · 86·Mod-Ref A · 92·Vel B · 72·Index B · 83
    Signal: -11 (Velocity − Index)
    B·83
  2. 2
    eLifeelifesciences.orgAcademic

    Open-access peer-reviewed life-sciences journal; transparent peer-review (reviewer notes published).

    Disc A · 90·Mod-Ref A · 88·Vel B · 72·Index B · 83
    Signal: -11 (Velocity − Index)
    B·83
  3. 3
    Hugging Facehuggingface.coPlatform

    AI/ML model + dataset hub; open-source community for transformers + ML research.

    Disc B · 80·Mod-Ref A · 92·Vel B · 70·Index B · 81
    Signal: -11 (Velocity − Index)
    B·81
  4. 4
    Our World in Dataourworldindata.orgResearch

    Oxford-affiliated research organization publishing data + visualizations on global problems; CC-licensed.

    Disc A · 92·Mod-Ref A · 90·Vel B · 76·Index A · 86
    Signal: -10 (Velocity − Index)
    A·86
  5. 5
    The Conversationtheconversation.comNews

    Academic-journalism collaboration; articles authored by academics + edited by journalists; CC-BY-ND.

    Disc A · 88·Mod-Ref A · 86·Vel B · 72·Index B · 82
    Signal: -10 (Velocity − Index)
    B·82

How we computed this

For each source, we computed Citation Velocity score − composite Index and ranked the result. Sources with the largest negative difference fill this top 5. Both scores are on the 0–100 scale, so a difference of +N means the dimension scores N points below the average of all three sub-scores for that source.

Composite Index is computed as 0.35 × Citation Discipline + 0.30 × Modern Reference + 0.35 × Citation Velocity. Differences between a single dim and the composite reflect the deviation from this weighted average.

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