Wilson, CS; Tenopir, C Local citation analysis, publishing and reading patterns: Using multiple methods to evaluate faculty use of an academic library's research collection JASIST, 59 (9): 1393-1408 JUL 2008

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Address: c.wilson at unsw.edu.au; ctenopir at utk.edu

Author(s): Wilson, CS (Wilson, Concepcion S.); Tenopir, C (Tenopir, Carol) 

Title: Local citation analysis, publishing and reading patterns: Using 
multiple methods to evaluate faculty use of an academic library's research 
collection 

Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY, 59 (9): 1393-1408 JUL 2008 

Language: English 

Document Type: Article 

Keywords Plus: OPEN ACCESS; AUTHORS 

Abstract: This study assessed the intermix of local citation analysis and 
survey of journal use and reading patterns for evaluating an academic 
library's research collection. Journal articles and their cited references 
from faculties at the University of New South Wales were downloaded from 
the Web of Science (WoS) and journal impact factors from the Journal 
Citation Reports. The survey of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) 
academic staff asked both reader-related and reading-related questions. 
Both methods showed that academics in medicine published more and had more 
coauthors per paper than academics in the other faculties; however, when 
correlated with the number of students and academic staff, science 
published more and engineering published in higher impact journals. 
When "recalled" numbers of articles published were compared to "actual" 
numbers, all faculties over-estimated their productivity by nearly two-
told. The distribution of cited serial references was highly skewed with 
over half of the titles cited only once. The survey results corresponded 
with U.S. university surveys with one exception: Engineering academics 
reported the highest number of article readings and read mostly for 
research related activities. Citation analysis data showed that the UNSW 
library provided the majority of journals in which researchers published 
and cited, mostly in electronic formats. However, the availability of non-
journal cited sources was low. The joint methods provided both 
confirmatory and contradictory results and proved useful in evaluating 
library research collections. 

Addresses: Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, 
Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; Univ Tennessee, Sch Informat Sci, Knoxville, 
TN 37996 USA 

Reprint Address: Wilson, CS, Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & 
Management, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. 

E-mail Address: c.wilson at unsw.edu.au; ctenopir at utk.edu 

Cited Reference Count: 19 

Times Cited: 0 

Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC 

Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA 

ISSN: 1532-2882 

DOI: 10.1002/asi.20812 

29-char Source Abbrev.: J AM SOC INF SCI TECHNOL 

ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 

Source Item Page Count: 16 

Subject Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information 
Science & Library Science 

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