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From Citations to Contributions: LLM-Assisted Credit Scoring of Research Articles

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Citation-based measures of scientific influence typically treat citations as uniform signals, ignoring the different roles that cited works play in a paper's contribution. We introduce contribution-based credit scoring for research articles: a structured citation analysis that decomposes a paper's credit between its own original contribution and the prior work it builds on. Motivated by a cooperative-game view of scientific credit, we propose the contribution tree, a hierarchical framework that conserves importance across the document structure and separates original from citation-derived cont

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