Measuring referencing practices

J. S. Kidd

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990, vol. 41, issue 3, 157-163

Abstract: Instigated by the informal observation of what appeared to be an unusual pattern of referencing in a thematic set of review articles in a major journal, a series of bibliometric analyses were conducted. The analyses confirmed that review articles on topics that are generating high levels of research activity tend to have relatively voluminous bibliographies made up of a disproportionate number of citations to source materials of very recent vintage. This finding provided the opportunity to evaluate some new measures of referencing patterns. A hot‐topic index (HTI) was developed that appears to possess heightened discriminative power and that offers the prospect of exploring some aspects of referencing practices that have previously been obscure. © 1990 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1990
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