Citation Patterns of the Faculty of the Anthropology Department at the University of Notre Dame

Abstract

This study sought to determine the extent to which the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame meet the needs of the anthropology faculty. It did that by focusing on how useful the University Libraries' collections were in their research and publications. This article describes both the methodology employed and the findings of this citation analysis. The study looked at the following questions: What were the faculty of the anthropology department at the University of Notre Dame citing in their published research? Where were they publishing their research? Did the library own these cited items and the publications in which the faculty were publishing? The study found that the anthropology faculty's citations overall were 47 percent and 45 percent book and journal citations, respectively. In addition, the library owned only 41.48 percent of the items anthropology faculty were citing in their research. This study also found that the library owned 72 percent of the publications in which anthropology faculty published their works. This study indicates a need for additional funding for further development of anthropology collections in the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame to support anthropology faculty at the university in their research and publication endeavors.

Anthropology Libraries and Anthropological Research Today

“…The largest academic research libraries, good as they are, cannot provide the depth or breadth of relevant source material that anthropology libraries offer. According to Kayongo and Helm (2009), Notre Dame's library contains less than half of what its anthropology faculty cite in print. Of course, most of these items can be consulted in personal libraries or obtained through ILL.…”

Using Data Mining for Citation Analysis

“…In a 2009 study, Jessica Kayongo and Clarence Helm found that their library provided access to only 41 percent of materials cited by Anthropology faculty at their institution, noting a heavy reliance on books as reference sources as a possible cause. 19 While researchers have studied bibliometric trends in geological science, few citation analyses targeting collection development in the subject have taken place in recent years. Louise Zipp analyzed faculty and graduate student citations at the University of Iowa in 1996 and found that faculty most often cited the Journal of Paleontology followed by the Geological Society of America Bulletin.…”

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

“… Artículos publicados por investigadores de un país (Creaser, Oppenheim y Summers, 2011).  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).…”