Twin Papers: A Simple Framework of Causal Inference for Citations via Coupling. (arXiv:2208.09862v1 [cs.DL])

The research process includes many decisions, e.g., how to entitle and where
to publish the paper. In this paper, we introduce a general framework for
investigating the effects of such decisions. The main difficulty in
investigating the effects is that we need to know counterfactual results, which
are not available in reality. The key insight of our framework is inspired by
the existing counterfactual analysis using twins, where the researchers regard
twins as counterfactual units. The proposed framework regards a …

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