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Do citation chimeras exist? The case of under‐cited influential articles suffering delayed recognition
Author(s) -
Hu Xiaojun,
Rousseau Ronald
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.24115
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , psychology , library science
In this study we investigate if articles suffering delayed recognition can at the same time be under‐cited influential articles. Theoretically these two types of articles are independent, in the sense that suffering delayed recognition depends on the number and time distribution of received citations, while being an under‐cited influential article depends only partially on the number of received (first generation) citations, and much more on second and third citation generations. Among 49 articles suffering delayed recognition we found 13 that are also under‐cited influential. Based on a thorough investigation of these special cases we found that so‐called authoritative citers play an important role in uniting the two different document types into a special citation chimera. Our investigation contributes to the classification of publications.