Can retrieval of information from citation indexes be simplified? Multiple mention of a reference as a characteristic of the link between cited and citing article

Gertrud Herlach

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978, vol. 29, issue 6, 308-310

Abstract: The hypothesis is tested and accepted that the mechanistically identifiable citation link characteristic, mention of a given reference more than once within the same research paper, indicates a close and useful relationship of a citing to a given cited paper. Closeness and usefulness of the relationship between papers linked by citation were determined by means of users' judgments. It is shown that as a selection criterion for document retrieval, multiple mention of a reference would yield good precision but low recall, since a considerable number of papers with corresponding single mention were judged closely related to the given cited paper. Frequency counts showed that approximately one‐third of all bibliographic references in the research papers checked are mentioned in the text more than once.

Date: 1978
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