Citation of the literature by information scientists in their own publications

Donald A. Windsor and Diane M. Windsor

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1973, vol. 24, issue 5, 377-381

Abstract: Frequencies of the number of references per paper were obtained for the information science literature represented by all papers cited in Information Science Abstracts, volumes 1–6 (1966‐1971). Almost one‐third of the papers had no references. Half of them had four references or fewer; two‐thirds had eight or fewer references. The ratio of papers without references to those with references was proposed as a measure of the scholarly status of a field. On this basis, information science was found to be less scholarly than pharmacy.

Date: 1973
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