What Do Chemists Cite? A 5-year Analysis of References Cited in American Chemical Society Journal Articles

Rose-Wiles, Lisa; Marzabadi, Cecilia H.

doi:10.1080/0194262x.2018.1481488

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“…These journals, the scholars concluded, "should be considered valuable or "core" across the various fields of chemistry". 29 In agreement with findings reported 10 years before by Kousha and Thelwall for which in chemistry, 88.5% of the citations retrieved by Google Scholar were from journal papers, 31 books and book chapters were cited only in 2.4% of the sampled articles, similar to conference proceedings (2.3%), and Web sites and other sources such as brief communications, dissertations, letters to the editor, notes, patents, personal communications, short surveys, and software or software manuals (2.5%). For comparison, in 2008 in physics, e-prints/ preprints accounted for 47.7% of unique citations, and in computer science, conference/workshop papers, 43.2%, were the major sources of citations.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Since the seminal study of Rose-Wiles and Marzabadi identifying citation patterns of chemists publishing in ACS journals between 2011 and 2015, researchers in the chemical sciences significantly increased the share of OA papers published. , Still, the citation habits of research chemists have barely changed. It is instructive, in this respect, to review the references cited in 10 communication articles from a recent issue (50/2023) of Chemical Communications , the leading communications journal in chemistry.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, the 2013 study of Thelwall and Didegah based on 16,378 articles published between 2000 and 2009 found that in chemistry, a unit increase in the JIF increases the mean citation count by 31.9% . The fact that no correlation was found between the JIF and citations in the 2018 study identifying citation patterns of chemists publishing 600 articles published in 10 ACS journals between 2011 and 2015 may result from the smaller sample size studied in the latter case.…”

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“…For example, an analysis of chemistry theses at Mississippi State University (Zhang 2013) and the University of Texas at Austin (Flaxbart 2018) found that citations to theses amounted to less than one percent of the total citations. Similar results were reported in a recent analysis of citations in ten different American Chemical Society journals where the citations for "other" information types, which includes theses, were found to be less than 5% (Rose-Wiles & Marzabadi 2018). The lack of discoverability and access to theses, including any substance content, could be one factor contributing to low chemistry thesis citation counts.…”

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Enhancing the Discovery of Chemistry Theses by Registering Substances and Depositing in PubChem

Scalfani

Dahlbach

Robertson

2021

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Chemical substances from theses are not widely accessible as searchable machine-readable formats. In this article, we describe our workflow for extracting, registering, and sharing chemical substances from the University of Alabama theses to enhance discovery. In total, 73 theses were selected for the project, resulting in about 3,000 substances registered using the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier and deposited in PubChem as either structure-data files or Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System notations. In addition to substances being deposited in PubChem, an archive copy was also deposited in the University of Alabama Institutional Repository. The PubChem records for the substance depositions include the full bibliographic reference and link to the thesis full text or thesis metadata when the full text is not yet available. Excluding mixtures, we found that 40% of the shared substances were new to PubChem at the time of deposition. We conclude this article with a detailed discussion about our experiences, challenges, and recommendations for librarians and curators engaged in sharing chemical substance data from theses and similar documents.

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“…Although citation to these databases is steadily increasing, citation counts are low compared to article citations to chemical handbooks (Tomaszewski, 2017) and science encyclopedias (Tomaszewski, 2018). Other studies confirm that non-journal sources are not frequently cited in chemistry journals (Ortega, 2008; Rose-Wiles and Marzabadi, 2018). Thus, a complete overview of resource citations is not reflected in the citation counts, presumably because scientists are not required to cite them or do not feel the need to do so.…”

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Citations to chemical databases in scholarly articles: to cite or not to cite?

Tomaszewski

2019

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Purpose Chemical databases have had a significant impact on the way scientists search for and use information. The purpose of this paper is to spark informed discussion and fuel debate on the issue of citations to chemical databases. Design/methodology/approach A citation analysis to four major chemical databases was undertaken to examine resource coverage and impact in the scientific literature. Two commercial databases (SciFinder and Reaxys) and two public databases (PubChem and ChemSpider) were analyzed using the “Cited Reference Search” in the Science Citation Index Expanded from the Web of Science (WoS) database. Citations to these databases between 2000 and 2016 (inclusive) were evaluated by document types and publication growth curves. A review of the distribution trends of chemical databases in peer-reviewed articles was conducted through a citation count analysis by country, organization, journal and WoS category. Findings In total, 862 scholarly articles containing a citation to one or more of the four databases were identified as only steadily increasing since 2000. The study determined that authors at academic institutions worldwide reference chemical databases in high-impact journals from notable publishers and mainly in the field of chemistry. Originality/value The research is a first attempt to evaluate the practice of citation to major chemical databases in the scientific literature. This paper proposes that citing chemical databases gives merit and recognition to the resources as well as credibility and validity to the scholarly communication process and also further discusses recommendations for citing and referencing databases.

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What Do Chemists Cite? A 5-year Analysis of References Cited in American Chemical Society Journal Articles

Cited by 12 publications

References 48 publications

Citations in Chemistry at the Dawn of Open Science

Citations in Chemistry at the Dawn of Open Science

Enhancing the Discovery of Chemistry Theses by Registering Substances and Depositing in PubChem

Citations to chemical databases in scholarly articles: to cite or not to cite?

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