Do local citation patterns support use of the impact factor for collection development?

Ralston, Rick; Gall, Carole; Brahmi, Frances A.

doi:10.3163/1536-5050.96.4.014

Cited by 13 publications

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“…22 Another strategy was to take a sample of the documents from a specified time frame. A third option was to sample a certain number of citations out of the total number of citations found in the documents fitting a particular selection criterion.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame

Kayongo¹,

Helm²

2012

CRL

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This study focused on determining the extent to which collections of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame met the needs of graduate students. This study data (2005–2007) consisted of a citation analysis of 248 dissertations and focused on the following questions: What were the graduate students citing in their dissertations? Did the library own the cited items? How did the disciplines compare in their citation patterns? The data showed that over 90 percent of the 39,106 citations were to books and journals. The libraries owned 67 percent of the items graduate students cited in their dissertations. The libraries owned 83 percent of the Arts & Humanities, 90 percent of the Engineering, 92 percent of the Science, and 75 percent of the Social Sciences sources in the top 1,000 most cited titles, indicating a need for funding for further development of Social Sciences collections in the Hesburgh Libraries.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame

Kayongo¹,

Helm²

2012

CRL

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“…Ralston's citation study of psychiatry faculty publications revealed a positive correlation between impact factor and citation. 5 Similarly, Vallmitjana and Sabate found a positive correlation between impact factor and citation in PhD dissertations in the chemistry field. 6 Besides the relationship between impact factor and citation, Schimidt, Davis, and Jahr also included circulation.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 91%

Beyond Journal Impact and Usage Statistics: Using Citation Analysis for Collection Development

Gao¹

2016

The Serials Librarian

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This article outlines a methodology to generate a list of local core journal titles by doing a citation analysis and details the process for retrieving and downloading data from Scopus. It analyzes correlations among citation count, journal rankings, and journal usage. The results of this study reveal significant correlations between journal rankings and journal usage. No correlation with citation count has been found. Limitations and implications for collection development and outreach are also discussed.

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“…Plenty of researchers warned about the labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of conducting this type of study (Black, 2001;Edwards & Jones, 2014;Ralston, Gall, & Brahmi, 2008). This paper presents a research method that would save considerable time without compromising the quality of the study.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Scopus to Study Researchers’ Citing Behavior for Local Collection Decisions: A Focus on Psychology

Bronicki

2015

Journal of Library Administration

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In recent years, the University of Houston has engaged in a campus-wide effort to raise the university to Tier-One status. The initiative has led to a significant increase in faculty's research output in the field of psychology. This dynamic change inspired the Psychology Librarian and Collection Coordinator to embark on a citation analysis to investigate two questions: how has faculty been using information for their research and how does the library's collection meet the research needs of faculty? In addition to reporting these findings, the article also describes how to use features in Scopus to simplify the data collection process. KEYWORDS citation analysis, psychology collection development, usage reports, collection assessment methodologyAs a branch of bibliometrics, citation analysis has been used to serve a wide range of purposes and to a great extent to inform collection development. Citation analysis involves collecting details of the reference lists among a selected group of publications. By counting and analyzing the characteristics of the cited references (i.e., journal titles, document types, age, subjects, etc.) librarians then identify patterns of information use among users. The results give great insight into users' information behavior, which can help to determine which resources are most valuable to a specified user group. Because data generated via citation analysis is objective and inspires evidence-based © Irene Ke and Jackie Bronicki

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Do local citation patterns support use of the impact factor for collection development?

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame

Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame

Beyond Journal Impact and Usage Statistics: Using Citation Analysis for Collection Development

Using Scopus to Study Researchers’ Citing Behavior for Local Collection Decisions: A Focus on Psychology

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