SIGMETRICS Digest - 12 Jan 2004 to 13 Jan 2004 (#2004-6)

[Patricia Meindl]

Bernie,
A number of people have developed taxonomies for classifying the types
of citations:

Brooks, T. A. (1986). Evidence of complex citer motivations. Journal of
the American Society for Information Science, 37(1), 34-36.
Chubin, D. E., & Moitra, S. D. (1975). Content-Analysis of References -
Adjunct or Alternative to Citation Counting. Social Studies of Science,
5(4), 423-441.
Cronin, B. (1980). Some reflections on citation habits in psychology.
Journal of Information Science, 2(6), 309-311.
Frost, C. (1979). The use of citations in literary research: A
preliminary classification of citation functions. Library Quarterly, 49
, 399-414.
Hooten, P. A. (1991). Frequency and functional use of cited documents in
information- science. Journal of the American Society for Information
Science, 42(6), 397-404.
Moravcsik, M. J., & Murugesan, P. (1975). Some results on function and
quality of citations. Social Studies of Science, 5(1), 86-92.
Peritz, B. C. (1983). A classification of citation roles for the
social-sciences and related fields. Scientometrics, 5(5), 303-312.

As you can tell, I am interested in this topic too.

Patricia Meindl
Chemistry Library
University of Toronto

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>Date:    Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:53:21 -0600
>From:    "Sloan, Bernie" <bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU>
>Subject: Qualitative citation analysis?
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>Quick question...
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>Is anyone aware of any studies of citation analysis from a qualitative
>perspective?
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>By "qualitative citation analysis" I mean looking at how the author(s) of
>papers use the citations, rather than simply counting citations.
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>Thanks!
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>Bernie Sloan
>Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
>University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
>616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
>Champaign, IL  61820
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>Phone: (217) 333-4895
>Fax:   (217) 265-0454
>E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
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