Does a Long Reference List Guarantee More Citations? Analysis of Malaysian Highly Cited and Review Papers

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Jan 2015 Malaysia Publisher:Inovatus Usluge d.o.o.Journal:The International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, volume 1, pages 6-16 (eissn: 1849-5664,

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Authors: Ebrahim, Nader Ale; H. Ebrahimian; Mousavi, Maryam; Tahriri, Farzad;

doi: 10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.13.1001 , 10.6084/m9.figshare.1321205 , 10.5281/zenodo.15796 , 10.6084/m9.figshare.1321205.v1

Does a Long Reference List Guarantee More Citations? Analysis of Malaysian Highly Cited and Review Papers

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Earlier publications have shown that the number of references as well as the number of received citations are field-dependent. Consequently, a long reference list may lead to more citations. The purpose of this article is to study the concrete relationship between number of references and citation counts. This article tries to find an answer for the concrete case of Malaysian highly cited papers and Malaysian review papers. Malaysian paper is a paper with at least one Malaysian affilation. A total of 2466 papers consisting of two sets, namely 1966 review papers and 500 highly-cited articles, are studied. The statistical analysis shows that an increase in the number of references leads to a slight increase in the number of citations. Yet, this increase is not statistically significant. Therefore, a researcher should not try to increase the number of received citations by artificially increasing the number of references.

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Relations between citations and references, 001, LC Special aspects of education, T Technology (General), A General Works, Citation analysis, Bibliometrics, H-index, Citation Analysis, Bibliometrics, Impact Factor, Performance Evaluation, Relations Between Citations and References, Performance evaluation, Impact factor, H-index, L Education (General), jel: jel:M00

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	selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	2
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	influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	Average
	impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.	Average