An Estimate Method of Information Influence Based on Citation Analysis

A method of information influence estimate is proposed in this paper which takes the citation analysis as instance. The estimate method based on knowledge tree which has a multilevel structure is built to research the rules of information dissemination and the relations between information influenced domains. Because the information influence has different reference value between information’s own domain and the other domains, an estimate method of multiple perspectives is more useful than former methods which use one formula to estimate information influence. In the instance of citation analysis, academic paper is considered as information, and citation papers are influenced by the academic paper.