The Influence of the Type of Sources Used on the Results of Citation Analyses

Line, Maurice Β.

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“…Line (1979) obtained similar findings for references contained in journals and monographs in social sciences and alluded to the fact that "monographs may be used as a vehicle for new knowledge in the social sciences" (p. 282), which is equally applicable to monographs in the arts and humanities. Yet ISI treats non-journal sources cited in the arts and humanities journal articles somewhat differently and considers more than 70% of them as "noncitable" items ( "noncitable" items constitute 22% of all items in SCI and 46% in SSCI) (Jacsó, 2001, p. 591).…”

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Arts and humanities literature: Bibliometric characteristics of contributions by Turkish authors

Şahiner

Tonta

2006

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Scholarly communication in arts and humanities differs from that in the sciences. Arts and humanities scholars rely primarily on monographs as a medium of publication whereas scientists consider articles that appear in scholarly journals as the single most important publication outlet. The number of journal citation studies in arts and humanities is therefore Researchers based at Turkish universities produced 90% of all publications. Two-thirds of references in publications were to monographs. The median age of all references was 12 years. Eighty percent of publications authored by Turkish arts and humanities scholars were not cited at all while the remaining 20% (or 99 publications) were cited 304 times (an average of three citations per publication). Self-citation ratio was 31%. Two-thirds of the cited publications got cited for the first time within two years of their publications.

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Arts and humanities literature: Bibliometric characteristics of contributions by Turkish authors

Şahiner

Tonta

2006

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…There are numerous studies of the characteristics of social science information and the information-seeking activities of social scientists, both academic and nonacademic (e.g., Ellis, 1989Ellis, , 1993Ellis, Cox, & Hall, 1993;Garvey, Lin, & Nelson, 1970, 1971Line, 1971Line, , 1973Line, , 1979Line, , 1981Line, Brittain, & Cranmer, 1971). These and other more recent studies have, in turn, been extensively reviewed (e.g., Adam, 1982;Eager & Oppenheim, 1996;Ellis, 1986;Hogeweg de Haart, 1983a, 1983bPreschel & Woods, 1989).…”

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Information-seeking behavior and use of social science faculty studying stateless nations: a case study

Meho

Haas

2001

Library & Information Science Research

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The information-seeking behavior of social science faculty studying the Kurds was assessed using a questionnaire, citation analysis, and follow-up inquiry. Two specific questions were addressed: how these faculty locate relevant government information and what factors influence their seeking behavior and use of such information. Results show that besides using traditional methods for locating relevant government information, social science faculty studying the Kurds use the World Wide Web (Web) and electronic mail (e-mail) for that purpose, suggesting that these faculty are aware of, and utilize, new information technology to support their research. Results also show that the information-seeking behavior of social science faculty studying the Kurds is influenced by factors similar to those influencing other social science faculty. Moreover, results also show that accessing the needed materials is a major information-seeking activity that should be added to David Ellis' behavioral model, and that faculty examined here employ somewhat a more elaborate``differentiating'' information-seeking activity than the one described in the model. Some elements of interdisciplinarity of Kurdish studies as a field of research have been discovered, however, further research is required to verify that. Implications for library services and suggestions for future research are presented. D

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“…Several empirical studies have shown that there is li le correlation between the citation patterns to monographic literature and those of journal literature. 1 Researchers further indicate that one of the limitations of citation databases produced by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) is that they are oriented almost exclusively to citations in journal publications. Consequently, warnings have been issued against blindly using the ISI citation data.…”

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Citation Characteristics and Intellectual Acceptance of Scholarly Monographs

Tang

2008

CRL

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The present study investigates citations to 750 randomly selected scholarly monographs in disciplines of religion, history, psychology, economics, mathematics, and physics. The objective of the study is to understand distributions of citations to scholarly monographs in various disciplines, to explore disciplinary difference in the citing of books, and to compare citations to monographs with previous results on citations to journal articles. The data revealed interesting citation patterns and aging effects that are in several aspects different from citation data based on the journal literature. While the distribution trend of monographic uncitedness is similar to that of journals across the disciplines, the noncitation ratios are much lower than what has been reported about journal citations. Half-life measures of scientific monographs are greater than those in the humanities and social sciences; this contradicts previous findings. Citation frequency and Price's Index vary from discipline to discipline, and the most significant linear contract occurred between disciplines of religion, history, and economics as one group and psychology, mathematics, and physics as another. When using periods of intellectual acceptance as the unit of analysis, significant disciplinary differences emerged both in terms of citation frequency and the number of books cited. Significant differences also appeared between earlier periods of intellectual acceptance that are within the first 10 years following the original publication year and longer ages of survival that are beyond 10 years.

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The Influence of the Type of Sources Used on the Results of Citation Analyses

Cited by 41 publications

References 2 publications

Arts and humanities literature: Bibliometric characteristics of contributions by Turkish authors

Arts and humanities literature: Bibliometric characteristics of contributions by Turkish authors

Information-seeking behavior and use of social science faculty studying stateless nations: a case study

Citation Characteristics and Intellectual Acceptance of Scholarly Monographs

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