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

Abstract

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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