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Author(s) -
Fetterman Nelma I.,
Lefebvre Verna M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x8401200405
Subject(s) - publishing , citation , subject (documents) , subject matter , bibliometrics , library science , citation analysis , set (abstract data type) , social science , psychology , sociology , computer science , political science , law , pedagogy , curriculum , programming language
Two basic questions formed the structure for examining the effectiveness of communication among researchers using the Home Economics Research Journal ( HERJ ). The first question pertained to the interrelationship between the literature published and cited in HERJ . The second question asked what impact the re search published in HERJ had on authors publishing in other journals. By per forming Bradford analyses using the 2,440 journal references cited by authors of 316 articles in the first 10 volumes of HERJ , core journals were identified. The core journals varied among the subject matter subsets and between individual subsets and the total set of journal references. HERJ ranked high in six of seven cores. Through citation analysis 133 articles citing 88 HERJ articles were found in 62 journals other than HERJ . Seven of the top 10 citing journals were also included in at least one of the cores identified by the Bradford analyses. To the extent that citations are an indication of the use made of research, implications are drawn regarding the effectiveness of HERJ within the written communication network.