Exploring research impact beyond traditional metrics: Scite on citation sentiment Online

Institutional evaluations have traditionally been limited in that their assessment of research impact via citations received has relied on a simple count of citations. In this talk, Sean C. Rife, PhD, co-founder of Scite, and a Professor of Psychology at Murray State University, will present a new approach to rankings that incorporates the content of citations using Scite's data, which classifies citations as supporting, mentioning, or contrasting.

Sean will outline the process of collecting citation data, classifying citations, tying published works to institutions, and how these data are used to compute a content-weighted impact score for institutions that incorporates both the volume of citations received as well as the number of supporting and contrasting citations received. Examples from Scite's rankings report for institutions and journals will be included, and limitations will be discussed.
 

About the Speaker

Sean C. Rife, PhD is a co-founder of Scite, and a Professor of Psychology at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, USA. His research and teaching focuses on moral and political psychology, as well as metascience and the role bibliometrics can play in the reform of scientific institutions. He is Head of Academic Relations at Research Solutions, Inc., Scite’s parent company, where he is heading up their research on entity rankings.

Date:

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Time:

10:00am - 11:00am

Time Zone:

China, Malaysia, Singapore (change)

Location:

Online via Zoom

Online:

This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

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