Own-language preference: A new measure of “relative language self-citation”

Bookstein, Abraham; Yitzhaki, Moshe

doi:10.1007/bf02464782

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“…They concluded that Chinese-language articles were not biased in citations compared with English-language articles published in the same journal, as no significant difference was found in terms of the mean citations received between the set of Chinese-language articles and the set of English-language articles published in these journals. We disagree with their interpretation of the results: in order to investigate language bias in citations, one must take into account the well-known fact that scholars prefer to cite articles in their native language (Bookstein & Yitzhaki, 1999). This is also the case for Chinese researchers: Tang, Shapira, and Youtie (2015) revealed that a high rate of internal citations exists among Chinese researchers.…”

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Chinese-language articles are biased in citations

Shu

Larivière

2015

Journal of Informetrics

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confidence: 72%

Chinese-language articles are biased in citations

Shu

Larivière

2015

Journal of Informetrics

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“…Clearly, further research needs to be conducted so as to answer these questions. Previous papers have reported the measurement of own-language preference (Bookstein and Yitzhaki 1999) and own-group preference (Egghe and Rousseau (2004). The methods used and measures obtained by these authors need to be analysed so as to explore its relevance in approaching the above mentioned questions.…”

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Influence of local and regional publications in the production of public health research papers in Latin America

Macías-Chapula

2010

Scientometrics

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The study seeks to identify the influence of local and regional publications in the production of public health research papers in the Latin American region. A citation analysis of the papers published in the following three leading journals in the field of public health was conducted: Revista Me´dica de Chile (Chile) (RMCh); Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricio´n (Venezuela) (ALAN); and Salud Pu´blica de Me´xico (México) (SPM). Papers were analyzed for the period 2003-2007. SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) and the printed version of the journals were used in the analysis. Overall, 1,273 papers from 122 journal issues were analyzed. References accounted for a total of 38,459. Over 90% of the production was published through the collaboration of two or more authors. Author affiliation corresponded in most cases to the country of origin of the journal. References to Portuguese papers accounted for nearly 5% in ALAN and less than 1% each in SPM and RMCh. Citations among the three journals were not significant. Only ALAN cited RMCh and SPM over 3% each, of total citations. SPM and RMCh cited each other less than 1% of total citations. With the exception of ALAN, most public health papers published in RMCh and SPM derived from the national collaboration of researchers in the field. A small amount of public health knowledge communication was being transferred from Brazil to the region through RMCh and SPM. A vertical and individual (per journal/country) model of knowledge communication in public health was identified.

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“…We were interested to discover whether any possible difference in the citation scores of men and women could be accounted for by the language in which they were written-since papers in languages other than English are normally far less cited than ones in English (Bookstein and Yitzhaki 1999;van Leeuwen et al 2000;Lewison and Markusova 2010). Some of the papers in all 3 years were in English, but had been translated from Russian on a cover-to-cover basis, often not that well except in physics.…”

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Female researchers in Russia: have they become more visible?

Lewison

Маркусова

2011

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This study is based on the fact that the surnames of many Russian scientists have gender endings, with ''a'' denoting a female, so that the sex of most of them can be readily determined from the listing of authors in the Web of Science (WoS). A comparison was made between the proportion of females in 1985, 1995, and 2005, with a corresponding analysis of the major fields in which they worked, their propensity to co-author papers internationally (which often necessitates having the opportunity to travel to conferences abroad to meet possible colleagues), and their citation records. We found, as expected, that women had a higher presence in the biological sciences and a very low presence in engineering, mathematics, and physics. Their citation scores, on a fractionated basis, were lower than those for men in almost all fields and years, and were not explained by their writing of fewer reviews and papers in English (both of which lead to higher citations), or their lower amount of international collaboration in 1995 and 2005 after Russia had become a more open society.

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Own-language preference: A new measure of “relative language self-citation”

Cited by 33 publications

References 14 publications

Chinese-language articles are biased in citations

Chinese-language articles are biased in citations

Influence of local and regional publications in the production of public health research papers in Latin America

Female researchers in Russia: have they become more visible?

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