[Purpose/Significance]This paper explored the inherent characteristics of citing behavior,which is of great significance for designing scientific evaluation indicators,discovering the laws of scientific exchange and predicting the evolution of disciplines.[Design/Methodology]In this paper,the Microsoft Academic Graph was used as the data source and an algorithm attribution frameworkwas constructed based on explainable machine learning technology.Then references of 20,116 articles from 18 LIS journals were analyzed by our algorithm attribution f...