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[ali uzun]

-------Thanks Morris for your enlighting message.
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> Ali's paper is nicely done, and study should be easy to duplicate
and
> extend in a couple of different ways. Particularly, it would be
> interesting to see how the number of references correlates to
citations
> received in other fields. Much of scientometrics borders on
slow-moving
> social science concepts where the knowledge doesn't cumulate
quickly.
> How do things correlate in fast moving specialties undergoing rapid
> knowledge cumulation and specialization, e.g., biomedicine or
certain
> areas in physics. 
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> The thing I find curious about the study is that there is a large
number
> of papers, 30%, that have fewer than 10 references. One would think
that
> these would be maybe short communications or letters, rather than
full
> papers. I think it would be interesting to examine a few of those
low
> reference count papers and summarize their characteristics.  Also,
the
> process by which the papers are classed as letters, articles, and
> reviews may have some flaws. Who decides?  It's probably the
editor's
> decision, and it may not be so easy to do.  After all, a paper can
> include a fairly substantial literature review, as well as original
> information --  is it a review? .. or an article?
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> Another thing that would be interesting to see would be a scatter
plot
> of the 467 articles with number of references on the x axis, and
number
> of citations received on the y axis along with the line of fit. 
Such a
> visual presentation really helps to assess the 'goodness' of the
> correlation that is being established, and usually shows if outliers
are
> adversely affecting the analysis. 
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> Below shows a histogram of papers binned according to the number of
> references that they cite, taken from a collection of 'all papers
from
> the journal Scientometrics plus all papers that cite a paper from
> Scientometrics."  The data was gathered from WOS in 2005. I think
that
> about half the papers in the collection are from Scientometrics,
while
> the rest are from other journals. Without a cumulative plot, it's
hard
> to tell, but it could be that the 30% percentile occurs at about 10
> papers. I've fitted a lognormal distribution to the data, which has
a
> mode of about 19 papers, which, for this distribution, probably
works
> out to a mean 25 references per paper.  Is it possible that the
> quartiles of this distribution could be used to discriminate short
> communications from articles from reviews?
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> Ali,
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> That is very interesting.  Something I would not expect.  It does
> support
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> Narin.  Can you send me an electronic version of your article to
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> notsjb at lsu.edu?  Do you have any idea why there is such a
relationship?
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> ------Dear Ronald,
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> 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.
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> This was supported by a Chi-Square test of independence between the
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> two indicators at 0.01 level of significance (Uzun, A. (2006).
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> Proceedings of the International Workshop on Webometrics,
Informetrics
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> 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
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> not) in
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> > general, i.e. considering all types of publication? And what if
one
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> only
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> > considers 'normal articles', this is when reviews and letters (and
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> other short
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> > communications) are not taken into account?
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> > Can someone point me to a reference?
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> > Thanks!
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> > Ronald
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