Uncovering milestone papers: A network diffusion and game theory approach

Wei Zhang, Juyang Cao, Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Zhen-Zhen Wang, Mingyang Zhou, Wei Chen, Hao Liao

Abstract: Highlights•We transform citation networks into influence propagation networks by reversing the citation relationships.•We propose a novel diffusion-based metric for ranking papers, combining influence propagation and game theory.•Experiments on APS and DBLP datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our metric in identifying milestone papers.