Citation indexing

I can't remember whether I noted this when I saw it first, but: citation networks again.  Oh.  Citation analysis is a tag, so I guess I did.

Citation cartels

Another interesting tidbit from the realm of citation analysis: the emergence of citation cartel by means of which the editors of Cell Transplantation cited a huge number of papers in their journal in order to increase its ranking.

Citation network analysis

Oh, now here we've struck paydirt!  This is an article describing analysis of the citation network of papers making a particular medical claim (a particular substance being associated with a syndrome), and how the citations lent certain papers authority even though they ultimately could be shown to have left out experimental data critical of the claim while citing data supporting it.

This is so very much the kind of project I'd like to be doing.  More on it later.  I've filed it under "data journalism", even though it's not, really - but it is the kind of analysis that could support journalism.  I've also started a new tag "social network analysis", because this article alone has convinced me that it's a real thing and not just a buzzword.