Citation rates and perceptions of scientific contribution
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چکیده
This paper presents the results of a study in which scientists were asked about their own publications and their citation counts. The study shows that overall the citation counts of the publications correspond reasonably well with the authors’ own assessments of scientific contribution. Generally, citations proved to have the highest accuracy in identifying either major or minor contributions. Nevertheless, according to these judgements citations are not a reliable indicator of scientific contribution at the level of the individual article. In the construction of relative citation indicators the average citation rate of the subfield appears to be slightly more appropriate as a reference standard than the journal citation rate. The study confirms that review papers tend to be much more frequently cited than other publication types. Compared to the significance authors attach to these papers they appear to be considerably “over-cited”. On the other hand, only marginal differences are found in the citation rates between empirical, methods and theoretical contributions.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- JASIST
دوره 57 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006