Obsolescence of music literature

Virgil Diodato and Fran Smith

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993, vol. 44, issue 2, 101-112

Abstract: In an update and extension of work by Longyear, the authors studied the median citation ages (a measure of synchronous obsolescence) of 9,850 references found in 37 journals in music education, music theory, and musicology. For six of the journals, the half lives (a measure of diachronous obsolescence) of citations to the journals were calculated. Results included average median citation ages of 14.0 years for references to journal articles and 16.0 years for references to all types of documents. Musicology obsolesced most slowly (median citation age equal to 22.0 years), followed by music education (14.3 years), and music theory (9.6 years). The average half life (7.0 years) for six journals was less than their corresponding average median citation age (27.0 years). However, there was gross, though not statistically significant, similarity between diachronous and synchronous data when they were analyzed using a procedure suggested by Stinson and Lancaster. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1993
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199303)44:23.0.CO;2-I

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jamest:v:44:y:1993:i:2:p:101-112

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-4571

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of the American Society for Information Science from Association for Information Science & Technology
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().