Levitt, J; Thelwall, M Atypical citation patterns in the twenty most highly cited documents in library and information science PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTL. CONF. OF THE ISSI, VOLS I AND II 485-488, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

Email address: j.m.levitt at wlv.ac.uk

Author(s): Levitt, J (Levitt, Jonathan); Thelwall, M (Thelwall, Mike)
 
Title: Atypical citation patterns in the twenty most highly cited 
documents in library and information science 

Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF 

Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 
485-488, 2007 

Language: English 
Document Type: Article 

Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International-
Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics
 
Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 
Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN 

Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & 
Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, 
Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ 
Carlos III Madrid 

Author Keywords: citation analysis; highly cited documents
 
KeyWords Plus: SLEEPING BEAUTIES 

Abstract: We investigate the citations to the twenty most highly cited 
documents in the Web of Science subject category of `Information Science & 
Library Science', finding that not only are most of these papers quite old 
but, surprisingly, for most their citation count is continually 
increasing, and for the rest it is undulating but not steadily decreasing.
 
Addresses: Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Stat Cybermetr 
Res Grp, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB England. 

Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI 
Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 
2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM 

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