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[Stephen J Bensman]

OK, Ali, I have read your paper, and a nice piece of work it is.  However,
I want to make one criticism.  You failed to classify your 467
scientometric papers into subject subsets.  It may well be that certain
scientometric topics may both have more references per paper and be more
prone to be cited.  Therefore, your finding of the high postive
relationship between the number of reference and the number of citations
may be an artifact of an exogenous subject variable.  I hope that you do
not take this as a criticism but as an opportunity to squeeze another paper
out of the same set of data.

SB




ali uzun <azun at METU.EDU.TR>@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 01/30/2007 01:37:26 AM

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-----Dear Stephen,
I am sending an electronic version of the paper. The statistical
ralationship between the two categories (citations received and
referances listed) is of predictive type. There is no cause and effect
relation.

Prof. Dr. Ali Uzun
Depr. Stat. Middle East Technical Univ. Ankara-Turkey.
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> Ali,
> That is very interesting.  Something I would not expect.  It does
support
> Narin.  Can you send me an electronic version of your article to
> notsjb at lsu.edu?  Do you have any idea why there is such a
relationship?
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> ------Dear Ronald,
> A sample of 467 artiles (not including reviews) published from 1999
to
> 2003 in the journal Scientometrics has shown that there is a linear
> correlation (correlation coefficient of 0.799) between the number of
> times an article is cited and the number of references it contains.
> This was supported by a Chi-Square test of independence between the
> two indicators at 0.01 level of significance (Uzun, A. (2006).
> Proceedings of the International Workshop on Webometrics,
Informetrics
> and Scientometrics, 87-91,10-12 May 2006, Nancy-France).
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> > Dear colleagues,
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> > Is there a positive correlation between the length of a reference
> list of a
> > publication and the number of citations received? Is this true (or
> not) in
> > general, i.e. considering all types of publication? And what if
one
> only
> > considers 'normal articles', this is when reviews and letters (and
> other short
> > communications) are not taken into account?
> >
> > Can someone point me to a reference?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Ronald
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