Are there citation analyses that distinguish different types of citation?

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear William,

I did once an extensive citation content analysis of biochemistry papers
with Olga Amsterdamska. We developed a scheme that you may find useful:

Olga Amsterdamska & Loet Leydesdorff, Citations: Indicators of
Significance, Scientometrics 15(5/6), 1989, 449-471.

The follow-up paper with the results of sending a questionnaire to the
citing authors can be found from my webpage at
http://www.leydesdorff.net/sthv90 :
Loet Leydesdorff and Olga Amsterdamska,
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/sthv90> Dimensions of Citation Analysis,
Science, Technology and Human Values 15 (1990) 305-335.

I hope that this is somewhat useful for your purpose.
With kind regards,

Loet

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different types of citation?


Hello:

I'm writing a paper about citations of research in Human Computer
Interaction (HCI). The citations in question are made by software
product designers who have published design case studies.

I'm finding I need to distinguish between different types of citation by
software designers, particularly the following:

1.  Positive, i.e., use was made of the work: "We designed our software
. in a way similar to OSPV [6]."

2.  Neutral, i.e., the work is relevant but wasn't used: "Projects such
as OSPV [21] have shown that ."

3.  Defensive (or negative) i.e. the work was considered inadequate in
some way and therefore not used: "OSPV is an online community .However,
it focuses on kids sharing with other kids, rather than."

I would be very interested to learn of citation analyses etc. that have
drawn this kind (or any kind) of distinction between ways in which cited
work is treated.  I am not an expert in this field -- I work in the
field of HCI.

Many thanks

William
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