Citation Velocity

How fast each paper accrues citations (recent vs lifetime rate).

The Citation Velocity widget.

Overview

Measures the rate of citation accrual per paper rather than the raw count: citations per year, the recent-window rate, and whether a paper is accelerating, steady or fading. Useful for spotting momentum that totals alone hide. Needs yearly citation data (e.g. from OpenAlex enrichment) or at least publication year and total citations.

Inputs

• Data (Table) — data with citations (ideally yearly counts).

Outputs

• Per-paper Metrics (Table) — velocity metrics per document.

• Summary (Table) — counts of accelerating/steady/fading papers.

Controls

• Max papers — cap papers processed (speed).

• Current year — reference year for age and recent-rate calculations.

• Recent window (yrs) — length of the recent window for the recent rate.

• Min paper age — ignore very new papers (too little history).

Actions: Compute Velocity, Cancel.