Complementarity between a use study and a citation study in considering publication practices in the physical and social sciences

Jean Rafsnider

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1975, vol. 26, issue 6, 344-345

Abstract: Comparisons of hard and soft science in user (Garvey) and citation (Price) studies were shown to exhibit a previously unnoticed complementarity. In particular, the lower utilization of recent citations by social scientists may be shown to reflect the greater time required for scientific work and subsequent publication of a social science research contribution as opposed to one from the physical sciences. This analysis offers an alternative to the view of hard and soft science offered by Price and raises several research questions regarding the relation between use and citation of scientific literatures.

Date: 1975
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