Establishing a Core List of Journals for Forestry: A Citation Analysis from Faculty at Southern Universities

Abstract

Citations of articles published from 1990 to 2002 of faculty teaching at selected southern universities are counted and analyzed to form a core list of the most highly cited journals for the field of forestry. Core lists are developed for assistant, associate, and full professors; and citation differences among the three groups are analyzed. The core list of journals is compared with the list of primary forestry serials compiled by the Cornell Core Agricultural Literature Project. The analysis focuses on the similarities and differences of both studies, and discusses the importance of ecological and interdisciplinary journals to forestry research.

Understanding Information Use in a Multidisciplinary Field: A Local Citation Analysis of Neuroscience Research

“…9 Paul Kelsey and Tom Diamond focused their citation analysis on identifying core journals in the interdisciplinary field of forestry. 10 Louise S. Zipp described the challenge of identifying a core list of journals for environmental geology, a specialty area of knowledge within the larger fields of environmental science and geology. Janice Kreider a empted to compare global analyses from ISI's Journal Citation Reports (JCR) with local citation data for the University of British Columbia for twenty subject fields in the sciences and social sciences.…”

Patterns of Information Use in Graduate Research in Forestry

“…Among those journals not coded to Forestry, the three main departments were Biological Sciences (n = 12), Plant and Soil Sciences (n = 7), and Wildlife and Fisheries (n = 5). This follows closely the breakdown of journal citations by AGRICOLA subject category code as found by Kelsey and Diamond (2003). Thus, when evaluating journals, librarians must consider the use of journals by researchers outside of the department for which the journals are coded.…”

“…Steele and Stier (2000) examined articles from the journal Forest Science and found that an article tends to be cited more frequently when the article's sources come from a variety of disciplines. Most recently, Kelsey and Diamond (2003) produced a core journal list for forestry by examining articles written by forestry faculty of seven Southern universities. Due to the parameters of these studies, many citations collected were not examined.…”

Determining the Core Literature of Water: A Citation Analysis of Faculty From New Mexico State University

“…Although the research was performed on a relatively small group of local researchers, it has broader applications for other institutions attempting to develop similar collections. Kelsey and Diamond's (2003) citation analysis project on forestry journals discussed the increasingly broad nature of the field, identifying trends towards interdisciplinary research and a growing emphasis on ecological, environmental, and plant science.…”