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Publication . Article . 2017

A study on the citation situation within the citing paper: citation distribution of references according to mention frequency

Cholmyong Pak; Guang Yu; Weibin Wang;
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Published: 23 Dec 2017 Journal: Scientometrics, volume 114, pages 905-918 (issn: 0138-9130, eissn: 1588-2861, Copyright policy )
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Abstract

Citation impact indicators play a significant role in evaluating the scientific research activity. Most of citation impact indicators are based on the citation count that the publication is cited as a reference in the other publications, but the difference between each citation situation was not considered. Normally, the number of citations that a publication is cited in the other publications may represent the formal quality of the publication. Similarly, the number of times that a publication is really mentioned within the citing publication, it may also represent the formal quality of the citation. We have examined about how many times each reference was really mentioned within the citing publications and studied about the citation situation within the citing publications. We verified that the citation distribution of references according to the mention frequency follows the Generalized Pareto distribution. The results showed that about 20% of total references were mentioned three and more times, and the number of citation mentions for the about 50% of total references were from about 20% of the total references in the citing publications.

Subjects by Vocabulary

Microsoft Academic Graph classification: Citation distribution Citation analysis History Citation Quality (business) media_common.quotation_subject media_common Library science Pareto principle Citation impact

Subjects

Library and Information Sciences, Computer Science Applications, General Social Sciences

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Social Science and Humanities
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