Egghe L, Rao IKR, Sahoo BB "Proof of a conjecture of Moed and Garfield on authoritative " Scientometrics 66 (3): 537-549 FEB 2006

[Eugene Garfield]

E-Mail : Leo Egghe : leo.egghe at uhasselt.be

Title: Proof of a conjecture of Moed and Garfield on authoritative
references and extension to non-authoritative references

Author(s): Egghe L, Rao IKR, Sahoo BB

Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 66 (3): 537-549 FEB 2006

Document Type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 6      Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
In a recent paper [H. F. MOED, E. GARFIELD: In basic science the percentage
of "authoritative"references decreases as bibliographies become shorter.
Scientometrics 60 (3) (2004) 295-303] the authors show, experimentally, the
validity of the statement in the title of their paper. In this paper we
give a general informetric proof of it, under certain natural conditions.
The proof is given both in the discrete and the continuous setting. An easy
corollary of this result is that the fraction of non-authoritative
references increases as bibliographies become shorter. This finding is
supported by a set of data of the journal Information Processing and
Management (2002 + 2003) with respect to the fraction of conference
proceedings articles in reference lists.

KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE

Addresses: Egghe L (reprint author), Univ Hasselt, Diepenbeek, B-3590
Belgium
Univ Hasselt, Diepenbeek, B-3590 Belgium
Indian Stat Inst, DRTC, Bangalore, Karnataka India
Univ Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

E-mail Addresses: leo.egghe at uhasselt.be

Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS
IDS Number: 008TG

ISSN: 0138-9130

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