Citation Analysis of Masters' Theses and Doctoral Dissertations: Balancing Library Collections With Students' Research Information Needs

Becker, Deborah; Chiware, Elisha Rt

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2015.06.022

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“…A study of 30 chemical sciences Ph.D. theses also found that journals (79%) were dominant, followed by books (16%) and only 0.2% of the citations were to other dissertations (Gohain & Saikia, 2014). In contrast, a study of 101 master's theses and doctoral dissertations (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014) in engineering fields found that papers (27%), dissertations (20%) and reports (17%) were cited most often (Becker & Chiware, 2015) and another study of 70 postgraduate dissertations in education (1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002) showed that books and monographs were most commonly cited (60%) followed by journal articles (25%) and theses (5%) (Okiy, 2003). Thus, it is clear that the types of cited references in theses and dissertations vary between subject areas.…”

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Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Kousha

Thelwall

2019

Journal of Informetrics

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Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of junior researchers. Whilst sets of journal articles are often evaluated with the help of citation counts from the Web of Science or Scopus, these do not index dissertations and so their impact is hard to assess. In response, this article introduces a new multistage method to extract Google Scholar citation counts for large collections of dissertations from repositories indexed by Google. The method was used to extract Google Scholar citation counts for 77,884 American doctoral dissertations from 2013-2017 via ProQuest, with a precision of over 95%. Some ProQuest dissertations that were dual indexed with other repositories could not be retrieved with ProQuest-specific searches but could be found with Google Scholar searches of the other repositories. The Google Scholar citation counts were then compared with Mendeley reader counts, a known source of scholarly-like impact data. A fifth of the dissertations had at least one citation recorded in Google Scholar and slightly fewer had at least one Mendeley reader. Based on numerical comparisons, the Mendeley reader counts seem to be more useful for impact assessment purposes for dissertations that are less than two years old, whilst Google Scholar citations are more useful for older dissertations, especially in social sciences, arts and humanities. Google Scholar citation counts may reflect a more scholarly type of impact than that of Mendeley reader counts because dissertations attract a substantial minority of their citations from other dissertations. In summary, the new method now makes it possible for research funders, institutions and others to systematically evaluate the impact of dissertations, although additional Google Scholar queries for other online repositories are needed to ensure comprehensive coverage.

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Section: Background 21 References In Dissertationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Kousha

Thelwall

2019

Journal of Informetrics

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“… Artículos publicados por investigadores o docentes de una institución (Costas, Leeuwen y Bordons, 2012;Currie y Monroe-Gulick, 2013;Dees, 2016;Gao, 2015;Kayongo y Helm, 2009;Ke y Bronicki, 2015;Matos, 2016;Watkins y Gunapala, 2013).  Tesis de doctorado o maestría sustentadas por estudiantes (Becker y Chiware, 2015;Brito Ocampo, Ladrón De Guevara Solís y Rosas Poblano, 2010;Mattos y Wense Dias, 2009;Rosenberg, 2015;Smyth, 2011;Tannuri de Oliveira, de Castro Silva y Moreira Garcia, 2007).  Ensayos o trabajos académicos elaborados por estudiantes de posgrado (Bennett y Brothen, 2010;Ivins, 2013) o pregrado (Datig, 2016;Leiding, 2005;Mill, 2008).…”

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Uso de información en docentes universitarios peruanos: un análisis de citas en trabajos de investigación (2010-2014)

Arakaki

2018

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El estudio aplica técnicas de análisis de citas para caracterizar el uso de información de los docentes de cuatro departamentos (Ciencias, Ingeniería, Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). A partir de la producción académica de este grupo, publicada de 2010 a 2014 e indexada en Scopus, se obtuvo una muestra aleatoria de 217 documentos. De este conjunto, se extrajeron las referencias bibliográficas y se examinaron para determinar su cantidad, edad y tipo documental. Dado que las diferencias encontradas entre departamentos corroboran, en general, la literatura, se sostiene que el área disciplinar juega un rol importante en la conducta informativa de los académicos.

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“…Citation analysis (CA) is a bibliometric technique used to determine the pattern and frequency of articles, books, and other types of materials cited by authors. Academic and research librarians use CA for collection development purposes, such as selecting and deselecting serials (Becker & Chiware, 2015), assessing the collection (Tucker, 2013), creating core lists (Griffin, 2016;Enger, 2009;Waugh & Ruppel, 2004), and evaluating the ratio of serials to monographs for a subject area (Devin & Kellogg, 1990).…”

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Citations found in Theological Seminary Ph.D./Th.D. dissertations completed between 2006 and 2010 at Andrews University were analyzed to determine how many of the cited resources were held by the library, what types of resources were used, and their age. The study showed that 2/3 of the citations were books and almost 1/3 were periodicals, 84% of the citations were held by James White Library, and the majority of the citations were published within 60 years of the dissertations' completion dates. The study also revealed that five of the 27 most frequently cited periodicals were included in ranked lists of three similar studies. University. Due to lack of adequate space for a campus, the church voted to merge Potomac University with EMC. ObjectiveAndrews University has awarded doctoral degrees to seminarians for many years but there has been no published analysis of the sources cited in the theses and dissertations of its graduates. This study undertakes the analyses of dissertations completed by the Seminary doctoral graduates for the five-year span of 2006-2010.

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Citation Analysis of Masters' Theses and Doctoral Dissertations: Balancing Library Collections With Students' Research Information Needs

Cited by 34 publications

References 18 publications

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Uso de información en docentes universitarios peruanos: un análisis de citas en trabajos de investigación (2010-2014)

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