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This study aims to explore the characteristics and internal mechanisms of indirect triangular citation based on literature source information, which constitutes a gap and a key problem in the field of scientometrics.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Firstly, this paper innovatively proposes a set of citation content analysis framework from the perspective of multiple citation structure, including citation relative position indicator, citation function classification system and so on. Secondly, the full-text data of large-scale triangular citation relations are used as experimental samples and the citation intensity, citation position, citation sentiment polarity and citation function of 18,817 triangular citation relationships are extracted, labelled and calculated. 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