Discussion of citation behavior as a function of research characteristics focuses on an analysis of citation patterns of political scientists in relation to variations in their research approaches. Hypothesis tested are given, citation measures are described, analytic procedures are explained, and further research needs are suggested. (40…

It is proposed that, in evaluation of higher education, the individual faculty member is a more appropriate unit of analysis than institution or department. A study of faculty (n=2,048) productivity in publishing scholarly journal articles provides evidence supporting this view. (Author/MSE)

Considers advocates and opponents of citation analysis use in the management of academic journal collections and describes the compilation of a relational database file to model an academic journal collection. The use of citation analysis is recommended for collection management based on cost figures presented. (LRW)

Examines the scholarly practices of authors of recent monographs in the fine arts as indicated by their citations to source materials. Data are reported on source type, language, publication date, and reason for the citation; and the findings are compared to other citation studies in the fine arts and literary criticism. (28 references) (LRW)

Describes an ongoing project that is investigating the correlation between journal cost and citation ratings in the fields of political science and genetics. Previous studies that relate journal costs to other variables are reviewed; the conceptual framework is explained; limitations of the study are considered; and further research is suggested.…

Describes the use of core journal network analysis and cocited journal mapping for studying the intellectual structure of scholarly fields and for evaluating journal collections to identify the most important titles in a discipline. Journals in the field of genetics are examined, and the use of spreadsheet software is explained. (31 references)…

Presents the text of the 1993 Ian P. Sharp Lecture on Information Science which illustrated the use of citation data from the "Science Citation Index" to obtain perspectives on Canadian science. Highlights include distribution by fields of science; highest impact and most-cited authors; and mapping science by cocitation analysis.…

Proposes a model for creating citations in academic writing that relates variation in citation language forms to writers' ability to control how they position themselves and their texts within a multimember colloquy that comprises the past, present, and future academic community. The model is potentially valuable pedagogically and for analyzing…

Describes the development and application of visualization techniques for users to access and explore information in digital libraries effectively and intuitively. Salient semantic structures and citation patterns are extracted from several collections of documents using Latent Semantic Indexing and Pathfinder Network Scaling. Author cocitation…

Discusses science evaluation studies that seek to determine quantitatively the contribution of different authors, departments, or countries to the whole system, and suggests that different scoring methods can yield totally different rankings. Presents formulas for counting procedures, nontrivial examples of anomalies, and possible solutions.…

Examines four common modalities (physical accessibility, cognitive accessibility, perceived quality, and perceived importance) underlying the complex citation practice by translation analysis. An analysis of Chinese literature in library and information science found a strong correlation between languages cited and languages translated. Highly…

This study maps the intellectual structure of the field of Information Retrieval (IR) during the period of 1987-1997. Co-word analysis was employed to reveal patterns and trends in the IR field by measuring the association strengths of terms representative of relevant publications or other texts produced in IR. Results show that the IR field has…

Relative own-language preference (ROLP) depends on: the publication share of the language and the self-citing rate. ROLP and the openness of one language with respect to another can be represented by partial order. Logarithmic dependence on the language share(s) seems a natural additional requirement for measuring language preferences. Gives…

Proposes a mining process to automate author co-citation analysis based on the Web Citation Database, a data warehouse for storing citation indices of Web publications. Describes the use of agglomerative hierarchical clustering for author clustering and multidimensional scaling for displaying author cluster maps, and explains PubSearch, a…

Discusses how to make the best choices for converting journals retrospectively to digital and online format. Results indicated that differences exist between the two disciplines examined--ecology and biochemistry--in the ages of literature used. Discusses possible screening methods before doing an extensive citation analysis of a discipline's…