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of multidisciplinary participation, mainly coming from military science, public security science,
library and information science, political science, history, public management science, law and
other multidisciplinary fields. 6) The development trend of the discipline is moving towards “serving
for national security and development” with five trend characteristics of “legalization, regression,
integration, expansion and deepening”.

Research on the phenomenon of literature triangular citation facing full text
content analysis

LIU Yunmei & MA Feicheng 〇a*

In this article, the co-citation and literature coupling are combined together, and a new kind of
citation relationship, triangular citation in literature, is proposed. Triangular citation is a kind of
pluralistic citation relation, which includes direct citation relation, co-citation relation and literature
coupling relation at the same time. Therefore, this new citation structure contains important
reference cited connotation and mechanism, and has high research significance and application
value.
In order to dig out the internal mechanism and characteristics of the phenomenon of triangular
citation in depth, this article analyzes the citation intensity, citation position and citation emotion
of three different citation relations in triangular citation structure from the perspective of citation
content analysis. Taking the 18,817 triangular citation relationships obtained from the CNKI
database as the experimental sample, this research crawls the corresponding full-text data, and
extracts, marks, and calculates the citation intensity, citation chapter position, relative citation
order and citation emotional polarity of the three citation relations that occur in each triangular
citation.
The experimental results show that the three literature A, B, and C have different roles and
influences in the triangular citation structure, and the three citation relations of B→A, C→A,
C→B also have different citation laws. In the triangular citation structure, the original literature A
has the strongest citation intensity, the highest citation order, and the most positive emotions cited,
and plays a basic and leading role. Intermediary literature B is a key link in the triangular citation
structure and plays a connecting role. The following literature C is the most active citation role
in the triangular citation structure, and promotes the generation of triangular citation relationship.
Secondly, due to the co citation connection between literature A and B, C→A and C→B are
consistent in the citation position; and due to the coupled connection between literature B and C,
B→A and C→A are also consistent in the citation emotion.
In addition, the model of triangular citation in literature can also be applied and extended to other

*Correspondence should be addressed to MA Feicheng, Email:fchma@whu.edu.cn, ORCID:0000-0003-0187-0131.