randomusername11010 t1_j4yljwd wrote on January 19, 2023 at 3:58 AM

Could you parse the citations to find which papers are cited the most to determine the most relevant papers rather than relying on papers with code?

niclas_wue OP t1_j4yukoz wrote on January 19, 2023 at 5:16 AM

Yes, it is possible to use citations as a measure of a paper's impact. However, when a paper is newly published, there are typically no citations yet, so this would result in a delayed signal. Retweets and GitHub stars provide a faster indication of a paper's impact. I believe that speed is important because, as a paper becomes older, there are already many reviews and articles written by humans that (at least for now) provide a better summary of the paper.