Dimensions of Citation Analysis

Leydesdorff, Loet; Amsterdamska, Olga

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2435467

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“…The lower citation figures of books on concepts and policies than of books on methods do not necessarily mean that the citing literature pays less attention to theoretical than to methodological issues: such figures may reflect that authors of articles tend to take basic ideas and concepts for granted, as part of the core or background knowledge of most readers, and therefore not needing to be referenced [2], [4], [8], [13]. Citation frequency is only one and modest proxy for influence [1].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Analyses of citations to epidemiologic books may complement other analyses on the nature, evolution and endeavours of epidemiology, a particularly integrative science [12], [13]; for decades, epidemiology has been useful to integrate knowledge, methods, reasoning and cultural referents from multiple health and social sciences, including medicine and public health. Hence, uses of epidemiologic and statistical reasoning, knowledge, and methods –foremost, uses in biomedical research– are of broad scientific interest.…”

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Trends in Citations to Books on Epidemiological and Statistical Methods in the Biomedical Literature

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BackgroundThere are no analyses of citations to books on epidemiological and statistical methods in the biomedical literature. Such analyses may shed light on how concepts and methods changed while biomedical research evolved. Our aim was to analyze the number and time trends of citations received from biomedical articles by books on epidemiological and statistical methods, and related disciplines.Methods and FindingsThe data source was the Web of Science. The study books were published between 1957 and 2010. The first year of publication of the citing articles was 1945. We identified 125 books that received at least 25 citations. Books first published in 1980–1989 had the highest total and median number of citations per year. Nine of the 10 most cited texts focused on statistical methods. Hosmer & Lemeshow's Applied logistic regression received the highest number of citations and highest average annual rate. It was followed by books by Fleiss, Armitage, et al., Rothman, et al., and Kalbfleisch and Prentice. Fifth in citations per year was Sackett, et al., Evidence-based medicine. The rise of multivariate methods, clinical epidemiology, or nutritional epidemiology was reflected in the citation trends. Educational textbooks, practice-oriented books, books on epidemiological substantive knowledge, and on theory and health policies were much less cited. None of the 25 top-cited books had the theoretical or sociopolitical scope of works by Cochrane, McKeown, Rose, or Morris.ConclusionsBooks were mainly cited to reference methods. Books first published in the 1980s continue to be most influential. Older books on theory and policies were rooted in societal and general medical concerns, while the most modern books are almost purely on methods.

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Trends in Citations to Books on Epidemiological and Statistical Methods in the Biomedical Literature

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“…We can expect that the process of knowledge diffusion and integration can be investigated by analyzing the citation lag. Although we must note that the practices of citation are different among science fields and among research groups (Leydesdorff and Amsterdamska 1990), it has the potential to capture and analyze the dynamic interaction among research clusters. We measured the citation lag by subtracting the published year of the cited paper from that of the citing paper.…”

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Citation lag analysis in supply chain research

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Interdisciplinary research is expected to contribute to industrial and economic development. However, due to expansion of knowledge and the fragmentation of research fields, knowledge dissemination among different research fields is rare and we need a methodology for measuring such dissemination and promoting it. In this paper, we introduce a citation lag analysis of inter-and intra-clusters extracted by citation network analysis as a new indicator to represent the speed of knowledge diffusion in subfields of a research field. A case study was performed within supply chain research to investigate knowledge integration among its subfields. Based on the analysis, we discuss knowledge structure and reciprocal influence of subfields in supply chain research. This study contributes to offering a new approach for analyzing and understanding the development of boundary spanning research.

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“…Ta kultura cytowania pełni współcześnie rolę głównego kanału komunikacji między uczonymi, gdzie poprzez cytowanie autor włącza się w bieg nauki. Dlatego też analiza relacji między cytowaniami traktowana może być jako badanie sieci połączeń między publikacjami naukowymi, które z natury rzeczy ma charakter poznawczy [Leydesdorff, Amsterdamska 1990]. Zależności między cytowanymi pracami mają dwukierunkowy charakter i ukazują dwie różne płaszczyzny w procesie rozwoju nauki [Garfield 1973;Small, Griffith 1974].…”

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Konkurencyjność w literaturze ekonomicznej – analiza bibliometryczna

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Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

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Dimensions of Citation Analysis

Cited by 31 publications

References 40 publications

Trends in Citations to Books on Epidemiological and Statistical Methods in the Biomedical Literature

Trends in Citations to Books on Epidemiological and Statistical Methods in the Biomedical Literature

Citation lag analysis in supply chain research

Konkurencyjność w literaturze ekonomicznej – analiza bibliometryczna

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