A simulation-based analysis of the impact of rhetorical citations in science

Honglin Bao (Harvard Business School [email protected]) and Misha Teplitskiy (University of Michigan [email protected])

This is the GitHub repository for our preprint "A simulation-based analysis of the impact of rhetorical citations in science". An earlier version of the paper is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06190. Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44249-0

We have implemented 6 models:

• The full model with heterogeneous readers (base model, model 1.1)
• The null model with heterogeneous readers, threshold-fixed (model 1.2)
• The null model with heterogeneous readers, citing-budget-fixed (model 1.3)
• The full model with homogeneous readers (model 2.1)
• The null model with homogeneous readers, threshold-fixed (model 2.2)
• The null model with homogeneous readers, citing-budget-fixed (model 2.3)

In this repository, we provided a comprehensively detailed commentary on the base model (model 1.1). For the other five models which are derived from the base model, we highlight the distinctions that differentiate them from model 1.1.