Discusses citation analysis methods particularly as a means of assisting researchers in clarifying formal communication patterns among journals within school psychology. Studied similarities among 22 school psychology and related journals in their citation frequencies. Main results indicated that seven school psychology journals display a low…

Examines a sample of 15 human sexuality textbooks published between 1989 and 1997 to determine the overlap in references among textbooks. Finds that 18.9% of the references appeared in more than one textbook, less than 1% were cited in 11 or more, and only three references appeared in all 15 texts. (CMK)

Discussion of research in image indexing and retrieval focuses on a study that analyzed citations and documents relevant to image indexing and retrieval obtained from the SCI (Science Citation Index) and SSCI (Social Science Citation Index). Results confirmed that there exist two distinctive research groups, employing the content-based and…

Discussion of citation analysis on the Web considers Web hyperlinks as a source to analyze citations. Topics include basic graph theory applied to Web pages, including matrices, linear algebra, and Web topology; and hubs and authorities, including a search technique called HITS (Hyperlink Induced Topic Search). (Author/LRW)

This article presents the author's critique on "Measurement of Central Aspects of Scientific Research: Performance, Interdisciplinarity, Structure," by Anthony F. J. van Raan. It also presents a summary of recent work by the Leiden bibliometrics group, which van Raan has led so ably for more than 15 years. The group has established an excellent…

To date, only a small number of articles have been written about the information literacy needs of social work students. This is a topic that needs to be addressed more among librarians because of the emergence of the evidence-based practice paradigm within the social work profession. Now more than ever, social work students need to know…

What types of information sources do masters and doctoral (M and D) students at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) use most, how do the patterns of use differ across subject disciplines and faculties, and to what extent does the Library and Information Services (LIS) keep or provide access to the journals that are mostly used by M and D…

This study performs an exploration of the relationship between introductory IS textbooks and the body of knowledge represented by the set of "super classic" IS publications. Textbooks play a critical role of introducing the IS field to IS majors, describing what constitutes mainstream IS knowledge and communicating to other disciplines and their…

The library and information science field is currently confronted with difficult decisions about how best to allocate acquisition expenditures among increasingly expensive journals. This article measures the return-on-investment of serial expenditures through the use of citation analysis, which is a widely used approach to ascertaining journal…

This paper proposes a way to organize the literature on cognitive and learning styles that avoids the shortcomings of existing taxonomies. Most existing reviews and organizations of literature in the field can be criticized on the basis of inconsistency, selectivity, lack of scientific criteria, failure to consider scientific impact, bias, and…

Examines tense, aspect, and voice choices in the reporting verbs in a corpus of research articles from the "Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine." Investigates how such choices correlate with other syntactic elements in the citations, as well as with the discourse functions of the citations in their contexts. (TB)

An analysis of citations to 24 science journals (1972-94) from Social SciSearch on DIALOG determined that, although other disciplines cite library science articles more often than previous studies have indicated, a comparison with other social sciences showed that library science is not cited as often as the more developed fields. Recommends…

An analysis of 4,780 citations taken from scholarly journals in 16 areas of engineering showed that journals are cited 53% of the time; electrical engineering literature has the shortest "half-life"; and literature types age at different rates for engineering researchers, with books having the longest useful lives and conference papers the…

Explains the development of an annotated bibliography of readings for library administrators through citation analysis to select frequently cited authors and titles. Includes annotations from the perspective of professional practice for 20 works from outside the library profession whose works are cited by authors within the library profession.…

Reviews the problems involved in citation analysis and discusses the possible magnitude of error involved when these problems are overlooked or ignored. Problems identified include formal influences not cited, biased citing, informal influences not cited, self citing, different types of citations, variations in citation rate, and technical…