A review and application of citation analysis methodology to reading research journal literature

Edward G. Summers

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984, vol. 35, issue 6, 332-343

Abstract: This article reviews citation analysis literature and explores the use of citation analysis as a method for identifying highly cited core journals and indicating the disciplinary structure and interrelations of journals reporting reading research. Citation data from the 1980 Journal Citation Reports were used to generate a journal size‐independent Reading Research Impact Factor as a criterion for selecting high impact journals. References from seven citing journals were used to produce a set of 92 candidate core list journals. After four iterations, a final diverse set of 27 highly cited journals emerged including publications from reading, education, educational psychology, educational research, language, cognitive psychology, general psychology, developmental and child psychology, and experimental psychology. Six journals from the area of communication were added to complete the list. Analysis of the 10‐year temporal distribution of recent citations from 25 of the highly cited journals pinpointed the immediacy effect of reading research as being on the borderline between hard and soft science with such research exhibiting a strong flavor from cognate areas of psychology. Problems and limitations related to citation analyses are discussed.

Date: 1984
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