An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment

[Sloan, Bernie]

Bauer, Kathleen, and Nisa Bakkalbasi. An Examination of Citation Counts
in a New Scholarly Communication Environment. D-Lib Magazine, 11(9).
September 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/bauer/09bauer.html

>From the abstract: "This paper presents a case study comparing the
citation counts provided by Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar
for articles from the Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (JASIST) published in 1985 and in 2000 using a
paired t-test to determine statistical significance."

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