Web citation persistence over time: a retrospective study

Riahinia, Nosrat; Zandian, Fatemeh; Azimi, Ali

doi:10.1108/02640471111177053

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“…With social media building inroads into our lives and impacting knowledge accessibility, it was found that this did not have a major role to play in the professional arena of researchers as the open access journals were not completely trusted due to concerns regarding predatory open access journals (Watkinson et al, 2015). However, Riahinia et al (2011) findings suggest that there is a persistence of web citation (Bhat and Kumar, 2008;Maharana et al, 2006). According to them, "the means per articles of web and print citations are 4.09, and 27.9, respectively.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Citation behavior of Pondicherry University faculty in digital environment: a survey

Singson

Sunny

Thiyagarajan

et al. 2020

GKMC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the citation behavior of Pondicherry University faculty with a focus on their recent publication experience, indexed in Scopus. The paper endeavors to gain an insight into their pattern of citation of scientific papers and attempts to understand the underlying motive in doing so especially in an era where information resources have transitioned from print to digital. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a judgmental sample consisting of 100 selected faculty members whose recent papers were indexed by Scopus database. A pre-defined questionnaire consisting of demographic profile and 23 items on citation trust and authority statements of citing sources was self-administered to them. Findings The findings of the study indicate that the citation behavior of faculty in Pondicherry University is complex and multi-faceted. Although majority of the faculty depicted an inclination toward normative citation behavior (concerned with the intellectual content of the work), there are others who displayed social constructivist (concerned with the social aspects of the work) citation behavior as well. However, in spite of the differences observed in the citation behavior of the faculty, it was observed that they remained traditional while making trust decisions even in the digital era. Finally, findings suggest no statistical significant difference when it comes to variables, such as gender and discipline in the citation behavior of the faculty. Originality/value Given the ever-increasing importance of citation in judging the quality of research journals, in ranking institutions and in determining the efficacy of faculty in India, author-based approach of understanding citer motivation definitely carry research value.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Citation behavior of Pondicherry University faculty in digital environment: a survey

Singson

Sunny

Thiyagarajan

et al. 2020

GKMC

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“…This yielded a ratio of 3.64 web citations per dissertation. Riahinia et al (2011) considered six LIS journals during 2005-2008 for their study. Of the 37,791 citations, 4,840 (12.8%) were web citations.…”

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Rotten web citations cited in scholarly journals: use of time travel for retrieval

Niveditha

Kumbar

Kumar

2021

AJIM

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PurposeThe present study compares the use of web citations as references in leading scholarly journals in Library and Information Science (LIS) and Communication and Media Studies (CMS). A total of 20 journals (each 10 from LIS and CMS) were selected based on the publishing history and reputation published between 2008 and 2017.Design/methodology/approachThe present study compares the use of web citations as references in leading scholarly journals in LIS and CMS. A PHP script was used to crawl the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) collected from the reference list. A total of 12,251 articles were downloaded and 555,428 references were extracted. Of the 555,428 references, 102,718 web citations were checked for their accessibility.FindingsThe research findings indicated that 76.90% URLs from LIS journals and 84.32% URLs from Communication and Media Studies journals were accessible and others were rotten. The majority of errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (not found) in both the disciplines. The study also tried to retrieve the rotten URLs through Time Travel, which revived 61.76% rotten URLs in LIS journal articles and 65.46% in CMS journal articles.Originality/valueThis is an in-depth and comprehensive comparative study on the availability of web citations in LIS and CMS journals articles spanning a period of 10 years. The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers, and editorial staff to ensure that web citations will be accessible in the future.

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“…She found that URLs at .gov top-level domain are more vulnerable to link rot than those at the .org top-level domain. Riahinia et al (2011) analyzed 37,791 citations extracted from six LIS scholarly journals, of which 4,840 (12.8 percent) were web citations. The mean averages of web and print citations per article were 4.09 and 27.9 respectively.…”

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“…Print-to-web citations and web-to-print citations are now fairly common and thus it seems inevitable that web resources are becoming favored in scholars' communication. The cited content is considered as available if it can be found either at the URLs included in the sample citation or elsewhere on the web (Riahinia et al 2011). During the last decade many journal articles, including refereed articles, contain citations to web sources.…”

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Corrosion of URLs

Prithviraj

Kumar

2014

IFLA Journal

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The aim of this study is to analyze the accessibility, corrosion and half-life of URLs cited in the articles of Indian LIS conference proceedings published during 2001 to 2010. A total of 5,698 URLs cited in the 1,700 articles were examined. The percentage of URLs increased from 39.10 percent in 2001 to 73.47 percent in 2009. The study found that 50.09 percent of URLs were not accessible at the time of testing and the remaining 49.91 percent of URLs were accessible. The HTTP 404 error message -''file not found'' was the overwhelming message encountered and represented 53.29 percent of all HTTP messages. The study also noticed that the average half-life of URLs of missing URLs was estimated to be 4.94 years. Even though there are various retrieval tools being used to recover vanished URLs, still there is a need to improve such tools.

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Web citation persistence over time: a retrospective study

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Citation behavior of Pondicherry University faculty in digital environment: a survey

Citation behavior of Pondicherry University faculty in digital environment: a survey

Rotten web citations cited in scholarly journals: use of time travel for retrieval

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