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White, Howard D.

doi:10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999<::aid-asi1542>3.0.co;2-t

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“…In addition, an assumption in the current analyses is that those with the most published articles are responsible for driving progress in this field. Checking an author's citation identity or citation image (White, 2001) would provide further information on his or her impact by examining the relationship between the number of articles produced and how often those articles are cited.…”

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Publishing Productivity in Sport Psychology 1970–2000: An Exploratory Examination of the Lotka-Price Law

Baker¹,

Robertson‐Wilson²,

Sedgwick³

2003

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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The current study examined whether the distribution of published research papers in the field of sport psychology followed the Lotka-Price Law of scientific productivity. All authors who had published articles in five sport psychology journals from 1970 to 2000 were considered. The impact of those authors was determined by the total number of published papers in all journals. Results provided limited support for the Lotka-Price Law; however, it appeared that the field of sport psychology was less elitist than other fields. Although these findings suggest that productivity in this field is similar to that in other fields of science, more research is needed to shed light on the role of the eminent scientist and the average researcher in the advancement of knowledge in sport psychology.

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Publishing Productivity in Sport Psychology 1970–2000: An Exploratory Examination of the Lotka-Price Law

Baker¹,

Robertson‐Wilson²,

Sedgwick³

2003

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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“…This is because the authors of such articles more likely belong, or have access, to separate research networks than authors from one country. It is known from White [25] and Mählck and Persson [14] that researchers tend to cite articles written by researchers with whom they have a personal acquaintance. (2) Complementary competencies : The rationale behind international cooperation in research may be that this provides access to highly competent researchers, thus resulting in high quality research which will be more frequently cited.…”

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Citation counts in transportation research

Hanssen

Jørgensen

2013

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose In addition to the number of published articles, citation counts are traditionally interpreted as measures of publication merit. They are therefore used to evaluate researchers, research departments, universities and journals. Building on research conducted in scientometrics, we employ data from research articles in transportation research to investigate the influence on article citation counts of article and author characteristics in that particular field of research. Method and results Using standard OLS-regression with robust standard errors we find that articles with a high number of references are cited more frequently than articles with fewer references, that articles written by authors from more than one country are more cited than articles written by authors from one country only, and that short-titled articles tend to be more cited than articles with longer titles. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study investigating factors influencing citation counts in transportation research. Implications for researchers, editors and funders are suggested.

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“…Traditionally, sceptics of citation analysis have argued that this makes research evaluation based on citation analysis an invalid evaluation method (MacRoberts andMacRoberts 1996, Seglen 1997). Conversely, proponents have defended citation analysis by arguing that as long as citation analyses are based on many reference lists, results are valid (e.g., Narin 1987, Nederhof and Van Raan 1987, Small 1987, White 2001. The sceptics have countered this by claiming that this would only be true if bias were distributed randomly, but biased citing, they claim, is not random (MacRoberts 1997).…”

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Statistical analyses of digital collections

Frandsen

Nicolaisen

2017

libellarium

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Using statistical methods to analyse digital material for patterns makes it possible to detect patterns in big data that we would otherwise not be able to detect. This paper seeks to exemplify this fact by statistically analysing a large corpus of references in systematic reviews. The aim of the analysis is to study the phenomenon of non-citation: Situations where just one (or some) document(s) are cited from a pool of otherwise equally citable documents. The study is based on more than 120,000 cited studies, and a total number of non-cited studies of more than 1.6 million. The number of cited studies is found to be much smaller than the number of non-cited. Also, the cited and non-cited studies are found to differ in age. Very recent studies tend to be non-cited whereas the cited studies are rarely of recent age (e.g. within the same year). The greatest differences are found within the first 10 years. After 10 years the cited and non-cited studies tend to be more similar in terms of age. Separating the data set into different sub-disciplines reveals that the sub-disciplines vary in terms of age of cited vs. non-cited references. Some fields may be expanding and the number of published studies is thus growing. Consequently, cited and non-cited studies tend to be younger. Other fields may be more slowly progressing fields that use a greater proportion of the older literature within the field. These field differences manifest themselves in the average age of references.

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Authors as citers over time

Cited by 184 publications

References 61 publications

Publishing Productivity in Sport Psychology 1970–2000: An Exploratory Examination of the Lotka-Price Law

Publishing Productivity in Sport Psychology 1970–2000: An Exploratory Examination of the Lotka-Price Law

Citation counts in transportation research

Statistical analyses of digital collections

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