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Cora Citation Network Benchmark

McCallum et al. / Automating the Construction of Internet Portals · Graph Machine Learning & Bibliometrics · 2,708 scientific publications and 5,429 citation links across 7 machine learning sub-fields

Graph Machine Learning & BibliometricsPublic Domain / Open Academic2,708 scientific publications and 5,429 citation links across 7 machine learning sub-fieldsopen

Dataset Profile & Characteristics

Label Type:Single topic category label per paper; 1,433-dimensional binary bag-of-words features
Languages:en
License Tier:permissive-open-source
Modalities:graph, text

Intended Use

  • Canonical "Hello World" benchmark for Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN, GAT)

Prohibited / Discouraged Use

  • Extrapolating performance to massive industrial heterophilous graphs

Bias, Leakage & Privacy Risk Analysis

Privacy / Sensitive Data Risks:

Academic research papers and citation graphs; zero personal data.

Known Bias:

Small graph size (2,708 nodes); high homophily (connected nodes share same label).

Known Benchmark Leakage:

Standard Planetoid semi-supervised split (140 training nodes).

Compatible Tools & Libraries