How does Semantic Scholar count influential citations? On Semantic Scholar, each author has a count of &quot;Highly Influential Citations&quot;, see for example https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Onur-Mutlu/1734461.
This information is also present in the API (field influentialCitationCount).
How are those &quot;Highly Influential Citations&quot; identified and counted?
Semantic Scholar's algorithm for counting &quot;Highly Influential Citations&quot; is described in this paper:
Identifying Meaningful Citations (Marco Valenzuela, Vu Ha, Oren Etzion)
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Identifying-Meaningful-Citations-Valenzuela-Ha/1c7be3fc28296a97607d426f9168ad4836407e4b