ABS&Comment:Stigler, Citation Patterns in the J of Statistics and Probability

[Gretchen Whitney]

CITATION PATTERNS IN THE JOURNALS OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
STIGLER SM
STATISTICAL SCIENCE
9: (1) 94-108 FEB 1994

Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 27 Times Cited:
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Abstract: This is a study of the use of citation data to investigate the
role statistics journals play in communication within that field and
between statistics and other fields. The study looks at citations as
import-export statistics reflecting intellectual influence. The principal
findings include: there is little variability in both the number and
diversity of imports, but great variability in both the number and
diversity of exports and hence in the balance of trade; there is a
tendency for influence to flow from theory to applications to a much
greater extent than in the reverse direction; there is little
communication between statistics and probability journals. The export
scores model is introduced and employed to map a set of journals'
bilateral intellectual influences onto a one-dimensional scale, and the
Cox effect is identified as a phenomenon that can occur when a
disciplinary paper attracts a large degree of attention from outside its
discipline. Author Keywords: CITATIONS, BIBLIOMETRICS, GINI INDEX,
HERFINDAHL INDEX, SIMPSONS INDEX, QUASI-SYMMETRY, BRADLEY-TERRY MODEL,
JOURNALS

KeyWords Plus:
MODELS, SCIENCE

Addresses:
STIGLER SM, UNIV CHICAGO, DEPT STAT, 5734 UNIV AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60637.


Publisher:
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS, HAYWARD

IDS Number:
NG285

ISSN:
0883-4237


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