AI RESEARCH
Where Do Your Citations Come From? Citation-Constellation: A Free, Open-Source, No-Code, and Auditable Tool for Citation Network Decomposition with Complementary BARON and HEROCON Scores
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.24216v1 Announce Type: cross Standard citation metrics treat all citations as equal, obscuring the social and structural pathways through which scholarly influence propagates. I The tool implements this through a phased architecture: (1) self-citation analysis, (2) co-authorship graph traversal, (3) temporal institutional affiliation matching via ROR, and (4) AI-agent-driven venue governance extraction using a local LLM. Phases 1-3 are fully operational; Phase 4 is under development.