Predicting the citation counts of individual papers via a BP neural network

Xuanmin Ruan, Yuanyang Zhu, Jiang Li, Ying Cheng

Abstract: Highlights•This study improved the citation prediction accuracy by applying the BP neural network.•The BP neural network significantly outperformed the other six baselines (XGBoost, RF, LR, SVR, KNN, and RNN).•Five essential features were determined for citation prediction.