The extent of influence: An alternative approach to identifying dominant contributors to a discipline’s literature

Ron Johnston

Scientometrics, 2009, vol. 78, issue 3, No 3, 409-420

Abstract: Abstract Most studies of scholarly influence within disciplines using citation data do not investigate the extent of an individual’s influence; does it extend over a number of years with a sequence of publications or is it confined to a short period and a small number of publications? Using bibliographic data from a series of quadrennial reports into developments in UK geography, this paper finds that few authors are cited on more than one occasion.

Date: 2009
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