Open AccessWeighted in‐text citations and research impact patterns: A case study of library and information science
Author(s) -
Zhao Dangzhi,
Strotmann Andreas
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101097
Subject(s) - citation , information retrieval , computer science , digital library , field (mathematics) , citation analysis , citation impact , information science , data science , library science , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , poetry , pure mathematics
Treating all citations in a reference list equally is one of the common practices of citation analysis that have long been criticized. The increasing availability of digital full‐text documents now makes it feasible to weigh citations in various ways, e.g., by their frequency or location in the text. In this paper we report preliminary results of a comparison of author citation weighing schemes based on in‐text citation frequency, and the citation impact patterns that emerge from them in the field of library and information science.