Patent ID: 8527442

Claim:
A computer-based process utilizing a specifically programmed computer to predict before, at, or after the time of publication the likely number of citations articles will receive over time comprising the steps of: a) receiving a selected article through an input along with relevant article information related to the selected article; b) obtaining, through the input, a set of articles along with relevant article information related to the set of articles related to the same general field as the selected article but exclusive of the selected article; c) storing in a memory the set of articles and the selected article; d) extracting and formatting through a computer processor, features from each article in the set of articles, the selected article, relevant article information related to the set of articles, and relevant article information related to the selected article, to enable a pattern recognition process to use the articles and relevant article information as inputs, wherein the relevant article information related to the selected article uses only features that are available before or at the time of publication of the selected article; e) from each article in the stored set of articles; 1) constructing models through the computer processor employing feature reduction and a pattern recognition process and the extracted article features; and 2) selecting, through the processor, a best model; f) predicting by application of the best model to the selected article by the processor future citation counts for the selected article; and g) outputting, the selected article along with its predicted future citation counts.