On determinants of citation scores: A case study in chemical engineering

H. P. F. Peters and A. F. J. van Raan

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994, vol. 45, issue 1, 39-49

Abstract: We investigated a broad spectrum of factors in order to identify one or a few that are the primary determinant of citation scores of scientific papers. Our focus is on a large field of applied science, chemical engineering. A set of 226 papers written by 18 internationally recognized scientists (‘top‐authors’) and citations to these papers has been used as a data source. Using multiple regression analysis, we found that the factor ‘top‐author,’ i.e., the ‘personal variation,’ contributes the largest number of citations. Other important factors are number of references, language, journal category, and journal influence. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1994
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