Deep and narrow impact: introducing location filtered citation counting

Dangzhi Zhao () and Andreas Strotmann
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Dangzhi Zhao: University of Alberta
Andreas Strotmann: ScienceXplore

Scientometrics, 2020, vol. 122, issue 1, No 23, 503-517

Abstract: Abstract The present study tests a citation counting method that filters out citations in the introductory and backgrounds sections and then weighs the remaining citations by their in-text frequency. The dataset used comprises articles on bibliometrics available in full text in PubMed Central. This method was inspired by findings from previous studies that in-text frequency indicates importance of citations and citations in Methodology, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions sections tend to be more important to a citing article. We found that this method makes a large difference in author ranking as suggested by a 0.4 correlation between ranking by this method and that by traditional citation counting. Generally, this method has ranked authors concerning biomedical issues higher and those focused on bibliometrics or science communication issues lower compared to traditional citation counting. This rank change pattern suggests that this method appears to have made essential citations stand out more, i.e., citations that studies concerning biomedicine are expected to draw on more heavily. This method has also ranked guidelines or theoretical or methodological frameworks for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, knowledge translation, and scoping studies much higher, indicating that Bibliometrics has been mostly employed in these types of studies in biomedical fields. Unfortunately, citation network analysis doesn’t seem to have been employed much as indicated by key authors representing science mapping being ranked much lower by this method although it has been shown to be informative for these types of studies.

Keywords: Citation analysis; Weighted citation analysis; Location-filtered citation counting; Research evaluation; Bibliometrics; Biomedical research fields (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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