Can electronic journal usage data replace citation data as a measure of journal use? An empirical examination

Duy, Joanna; Vaughan, Liwen

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2006.05.005

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“…Thus, the following table (Table 1) shows the papers' distribution among the journals. In this representation, the journals are ordered by the total number of citations, with only journals that have more than 100 total citations included (Duy and Vaughan, 2006). By analyzing the table, it is possible to recognize a difference in a journal's main topic.…”

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“…There is a huge debate around how to measure the impact of journals and papers (Amin and Mabe, 2004;Garfield, 2006;Hall and Page, 2015), however, three useful measures are well accepted by the literature regarding the journals and papers. They are the total number of papers, the total number of citations, and the average citation per paper (Duy and Vaughan, 2006;Garfield, 2006;Garfield and Pudovnik, 2015). Thus, the following table (Table 1) shows the papers' distribution among the journals.…”

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“…The journal proximity map (Figure 2) is built by grouping the most repeated keywords in the database of the journals with the most citations, as identified in Table 1 (Duy and Vaughan, 2006;Garfield, 2006). After this process of isolation, we make a comparison between the keywords repeated more often in those groups.…”

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“…This type of data is not only used by publishers as a way to monitor the usage of their journals but also by libraries who wish to monitor and manage the usage of their collections (Duy & Vaughan, 2006).…”

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On full text download and citation distributions in scientific‐scholarly journals

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Halevi

2015

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A statistical analysis of full text downloads of articles in Elsevier's ScienceDirect covering all disciplines reveals large differences in download frequencies, their skewness, and their correlation with Scopus-based citation counts, between disciplines, journals, and document types. Download counts tend to be two orders of magnitude higher and less skewedly distributed than citations. A mathematical model based on the sum of two exponentials does not adequately capture monthly download counts. The degree of correlation at the article level within a journal is similar to that at the journal level in the discipline covered by that journal, suggesting that the differences between journals are to a large extent discipline-specific. Despite the fact that in all study journals download and citation counts per article positively correlate, little overlap may exist between the set of articles appearing in the top of the citation distribution and that with the most frequently downloaded ones. Usage and citation leaks, bulk downloading, differences between reader and author populations in a subject field, the type of document or its content, differences in obsolescence patterns between downloads and citations, different functions of reading and citing in the research process, all provide possible explanations of differences between download and citation distributions.

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“…Usage metrics can therefore be regarded as complementary to citation metrics; they reflect usage in a much broader scope (Duy and Vaughan, 2006) and have caused the emergence of the field of bibliometric research (Bollen and Van de Sompel, 2008;Schloegl and Gorraiz, 2009). This paper suggests an approach to providing global usage metrics which is supported by libraries.…”

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Going beyond Citations: SERUM — a new Tool Provided by a Network of Libraries

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Gumpenberger²

2010

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Citation metrics are a well-established means to assess the impact of scholarly output. With the growing availability of e-journals, usage metrics have become an interesting alternative to citation metrics; they allow for viewing scholarly communication from the user's perspective. Usage metrics offer several advantages that have the potential of enhancing existing evaluation criteria for scholarly journals. This paper suggests an approach to providing global usage metrics which is supported by libraries. The goal is to provide an analytical tool called Standardized Electronic Resource Usage Metrics (SERUM) which is comparable to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), but which makes use of download data instead of citation data.Global download data would be obtained from the publishers, assuming they are willing to contribute in order to benefit from newly established evaluation criteria for periodicals beyond the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and consequential strengthening of their products. An international network of libraries with a sound disciplinary coverage will be established in order to obtain, manage and check the authenticity of the data delivered by the publishers. The network will act as a clearing centre operated by independent information specialists to guarantee data integrity as well as data curation according to a standardised format. Furthermore, the network's internationally distributed members should also track and manage local usage data, reflect local trends, and relate these to the global publishers' data. In addition, a regularly updated version with specific basic usage metrics and journal rankings will be offered.

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Can electronic journal usage data replace citation data as a measure of journal use? An empirical examination

Cited by 80 publications

References 16 publications

Product and process innovation in manufacturing firms: a 30-year bibliometric analysis

Product and process innovation in manufacturing firms: a 30-year bibliometric analysis

On full text download and citation distributions in scientific‐scholarly journals

Going beyond Citations: SERUM — a new Tool Provided by a Network of Libraries

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