Response to comment on "Quantifying long-term scientific impact"

Dashun Wang, Chaoming Song, Hua Wei Shen, Albert László Barabási*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debate

Abstract (may include machine translation)

Wang, Mei, and Hicks claim that they observed large mean prediction errors when using our model. We find that their claims are a simple consequence of overfitting, which can be avoided by standard regularization methods. Here, we show that our model provides an effective means to identify papers that may be subject to overfitting, and the model, with or without prior treatment, outperforms the proposed naïve approach.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)149c
JournalScience
Volume345
Issue number6193
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

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