The peculiarity of Citation Thread lies in its requirement to be provided with a complete list of the cited references for each article. For example two distinct papers both citing the work of F. de Saussure re-printed in 1959 will be tagged by Citation Thread as being correlated. If enough articles are provided to the program, it may be possible to classify them and to define the likelihood of a category. The version 3.0 of Citation Thread is in addition capable of handling sub-categories as required by the complexity of the bibliography. Scope Consultants Knowledge pathways between rising technologies and their potential applications is a crucial information that may be employed to establish a metric on a technology impact.
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