Ranganathan's Influence Examined Bibliometrically

Lancaster, F. W.; Zeter, Mary Jo; Metzler, Laura

doi:10.1515/libr.1992.42.3.268

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“…24 years is Kochen's, whose writings and influence are discussed at length in Lancaster, Bushur, & Low, (1993 tionists and science communication authors, who are relatively far out at left.…”

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Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995

White¹

1998

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

708

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Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995

White¹

1998

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

708

914

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“…An example of a citation study on the work of an individual is the recent analysis which was published on the writings of Ranganathan. This study was performed to gain a picture of the 'depth and breadth' [60] of Ranganathan's influence in the field of librarianship. The citation patterns of his books and journal articles were traced.…”

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Do citations matter?

Baird

Oppenheim

1994

Journal of Information Science

137

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Citation indexes are based on the principle of authors citing previous articles of relevance. The paper demonstrates the long history of citing for precedent and notes how ISI's citation indexes differ from Shepards Citations. The paper analyses some of the criticisms of citation counting, and some of the uses for which citation analysis has been employed. The paper also examines the idea of the development of an Acknowledgements Index, and concludes such an index is unlikely to be commercially viable. The paper describes a citation study of Eugene Garfield, and concludes that he may be the most heavily cited information scientist, that he is a heavy self-citer, and that the reasons why other authors cite Garfield are different from the reasons why he cites himself. The paper concludes that citation studies remain a valid method of analysis of individuals', institutions', or journals' impact, but need to be used with caution and in conjunction with other measures.

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“…One common way of conducting bibliometric research is to use the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), the Science Citation Index (SCI), or the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) databases to trace citations. Among medical topics, the SCI and SSCI have been used for a bibliometric analysis of the citations in Ranganathan's publications (LANCASTER et al, 1992), a Spanish investigation of international pharmacy and pharmacology journals (BORDONS et al, 1996), digestive laparoscopic surgery (TUTOSAUS et al, 2001), and oncological research overview in the European Union (UGOLINI & MELA, 2003). Alternative medicine has been studied (WAKIJI, 1997) and some related alternative therapy topics, for instance, acupuncture (ZHANG, 1995), chiropractic (KEATING et al, 1998), herbal medicine (EVANS, 2001), Qigong (ZHANG et al, 1997), and veterinary medicine (RIVAS et al, 1997) have also been analyzed using bibliometric methods.…”

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