An empirical study of the accessibility of web references in two Chinese academic journals

Wu, Zhiqiang

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-1951-1

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“…Wu (2009) studied web references cited in two key Chinese academic journals. Out of 1637 web references found 776 were inaccessible.…”

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“…Various studies such as those conducted by Sellitto (2004), Maharana, Nayak, and Sahu, (2006), Dimitrova and Bugeja (2007), Wu (2009), Moghaddam and Saberi (2011), Sampath Kumar and Prithviraj (2012) and Sampath Kumar and Vinay Kumar (2013) focused on the trends of using web resources in the scholarly communication and found that the scientific community is vigorously using web resources. The use of web resources has led scholars to refer and cite more web resources as a part of their research activity (Jalalifard, Norouzi and Isfandyari-Moghaddam 2013).…”

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Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google

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“…Wu (2009) studied web references cited in two key Chinese academic journals. Out of 1637 web references found 776 were inaccessible.…”

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Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google

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“…The web becomes an enormous academic-related document repository and Internet turns out to be an important platform for people participating in academic research to deliver and obtain valuable information (Gray et al 2008;Wu 2009). Nowadays, researchers utilize a substantial amount of web information resources in their formal or informal scholarly communications (Spinellis 2003).…”

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“…Web citations, also referred to as ''web references'', ''online citations'', ''URL citations'', ''electronic references'', etc., are web information used as references of academic papers (Wu 2009). One of their remarkable reflections is the URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) of websites listed in academic papers' references, which is the most marked evidence for the utilization of web resources in academic research (Yang 2009).…”

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“…Harter and Kim (1996) performed one of the earliest studies when they examined 83 references to online sources from 74 e-journals and found that only 43 were accessible in 1995. Thereafter, more people studied the performance of web citation (Wu 2009). Such as the invalid of web references in computer science publications in the Research Index database (Lawrence et al 2001); the half-life of a referenced URL in two computer science journals (Spinellis 2003); the accessibility of URLs in high-impact oncology journals by Hester et al (2004); the stability and persistence of URLs in MEDLINE abstracts by Wren (2004); the inaccessibility of URL references from the D-Lib Magazine articles by McCown et al (2005); the inaccessibility of internet references in biomedical literature at the time of publication by Aronsky et al (2007).…”

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An empirical study on the utilization of web academic resources in humanities and social sciences based on web citations

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In this era of a rapid change in the way people finding and using information resources, despite that the academic communication and using patterns for people in the traditional print environment have been studied for many years, the Internet media presents a new and relatively unexplored area for such study. In this article, we explored the distribution and utilization of web recourses in humanities and social sciences based on web citations. We collected 1,421,731 citations listed in 148,172 articles from 493 journals published during the period of 2006-2007 in the CSSCI, which resulted in 44,973 web citations. We counted the amount and types of web resources used in various disciplines, analyzed the URLs frequency from the host-level, fitted the frequency distribution into the regression models with SPSS, and perform the disciplines coupling analysis based on the web citations. We found out that: (a) The distributions of web citations by years or by websites and webpage types are selective and regular; (b) Great disparity exists among various disciplines in terms of using web information, and the high-frequency websites; (c) The frequency distribution of web citations is similar to the Garfield's citation distribution curve; (d) Some relationships between disciplines are detected, based on the utilization of web information.

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A longitudinal analysis of citation distribution breadth for Chinese scholars

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Over the past 30 years, the research behavior of Chinese scholars has continually evolved. This paper studied the citing behavior of Chinese scholars by employing three indicators of citation concentration from the perspective of citation breadth analysis. All the citations from 2,338,033 papers from the Chinese Citation Database (1979Database ( -2008 covering four disciplines-Chemistry; Clinical Medicine; Library, Information and Archival Science; and Chinese Literature and World Literature-were analyzed. Empirical results show a general weakening tendency towards citation concentration: (1) decreasing percentage of uncited published papers within a given year; (2) a higher percentage of papers required to account for the same proportion of citation than before; and (3) the steady decline in the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) of citation distribution. All three measures indicate a decline in citing concentration or an increase in citation breadth. This phenomenon may be the result of increased access to materials, perhaps because of the ease with which scholarly materials can be accessed through the Internet.

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An empirical study of the accessibility of web references in two Chinese academic journals

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google

Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google

An empirical study on the utilization of web academic resources in humanities and social sciences based on web citations

A longitudinal analysis of citation distribution breadth for Chinese scholars

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