Patent ID: 8589784

Claim:
A method comprising: creating, by one or more devices, candidate identifiers for a plurality of documents; processing, by the one or more devices, the candidate identifiers according to language specific rules; determining, by the one or more devices and for at least one document, that a second plurality of documents from the plurality of documents are different versions of the at least one document based on a similarity among two or more of the processed candidate identifiers; calculating, by the one or more devices, a total citation count for the at least one document based on a citation count associated with the second plurality of documents, the total citation count being associated with a total quantity of the plurality of documents that cite the second plurality of documents that are the different versions of the at least one document; and providing, by the one or more devices and based on the total citation count, information for an assessment of at least one of a significance, an importance, or a quality of the at least one document.