The question of citation behavior has always intrigued scientists from
various disciplines. While general citation patterns have been widely studied
in the literature we develop the notion of citation projection graphs by
investigating the citations among the publications that a given paper cites. We
investigate how patterns of citations vary between various scientific
disciplines and how such patterns reflect the scientific impact of the paper.
We find that idiosyncratic citation patterns are characteristic for low impact
papers; while narrow, discipline-focused citation patterns are common for
medium impact papers. Our results show that crossing-community, or bridging
citation patters are high risk and high reward since such patterns are
characteristic for both low and high impact papers. Last, we observe that
recently citation networks are trending toward more bridging and
interdisciplinary forms.

本研究通过研究论文引用的出版物之间的引证，开发了 “引证投影图” 概念，并探究了引用模式在不同科学领域中的变化以及这种模式如何反映了论文的科学影响力。研究发现，低影响论文具有特有的引用模式，而中等影响论文具有狭窄、学科专注的引用模式。跨学科引用模式既有高风险又有高收益，越来越多的引用网络呈现出跨学科的趋势。