The proposal of a broadening of perspective in evaluative bibliometrics by complementing the times cited with a cited reference analysis

Lutz Bornmann () and Werner Marx

Journal of Informetrics, 2013, vol. 7, issue 1, 84-88

Abstract: A proposal is made in this paper for a broadening of perspective in evaluative bibliometrics by complementing the (standard) times cited with a cited reference analysis for a field-specific citation impact measurement. The times cited approach counts the citations of a given publication set. In contrast, we change the perspective and start by selecting all papers dealing with a specific research topic or field (the example in this study is research on Aspirin). Then we extract all cited references from the papers of this field-specific publication set and analyse which papers, scientists, and journals have been cited most often. In this study, we use the Chemical Abstracts registry number to select the publications for a specific field. However, the cited reference approach can be used with any other field classification system proposed up to now.

Keywords: Citation impact; Normalized citation counts; Journal impact factor; Cited references (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.09.003

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