Early citation studies of Journals in Economics as well as Statistics by SM Sigler

Tue Jun 9 16:16:16 EDT 2009

I recently re-read these early papers by Stephen M. Stigler and thought
that they would be of interest to Sigmetrics readers. This note from the
author  indicates that he will provide copies by writing to   
Stigler at uchicago.edu

.
"The 1995 paper on economics journals  was followed by a paper on
Statistics journals which was actually published earlier (in 1994) due
to delays with handling the 1995 paper.  Both papers are in JSTOR (they
are from different journals) and because they did not give e-prints in
those days .  I will be happy to furnish copies to anyone who asks. "

>From a WOS search I have collected  citation data   using HistCite
software. Please go to 
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/histcomp/index-stigler.html

to examine the tables and historiographs.

The 1995 paper was co-authored with Stephen's father,  the Nobelist
Geroge M. Stigler. 

The following entries can be found in the WebofScience. Eugene Garfield

CITATION PATTERNS IN THE JOURNALS OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Author(s): STIGLER SM
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M&ut=A1994NG28500005&pos=1>  

Source: STATISTICAL SCIENCE    Volume: 9    Issue: 1    Pages: 94-108
Published: FEB 1994   

Times Cited: 24
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1&recid=86847235>      References: 27
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Abstract: This is a study of the use of citation data to investigate the
role statistics journals play in communication within that field and
between statistics and other fields. The study looks at citations as
import-export statistics reflecting intellectual influence. The
principal findings include: there is little variability in both the
number and diversity of imports, but great variability in both the
number and diversity of exports and hence in the balance of trade; there
is a tendency for influence to flow from theory to applications to a
much greater extent than in the reverse direction; there is little
communication between statistics and probability journals. The export
scores model is introduced and employed to map a set of journals'
bilateral intellectual influences onto a one-dimensional scale, and the
Cox effect is identified as a phenomenon that can occur when a
disciplinary paper attracts a large degree of attention from outside its
discipline.

Document Type: Article 

Language: English 

Author Keywords: CITATIONS; BIBLIOMETRICS; GINI INDEX; HERFINDAHL INDEX;
SIMPSONS INDEX; QUASI-SYMMETRY; BRADLEY-TERRY MODEL; JOURNALS 

KeyWords Plus: MODELS; SCIENCE 

Reprint Address: STIGLER, SM (reprint author), UNIV CHICAGO, DEPT STAT,
5734 UNIV AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60637 USA 

THE JOURNALS OF ECONOMICS

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Author(s): STIGLER GJ
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J&ut=A1995QU10400005&pos=1> , STIGLER SM
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M&ut=A1995QU10400005&pos=2> , FRIEDLAND C
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Source: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY    Volume: 103    Issue: 2
Pages: 331-359    Published: APR 1995   

Times Cited: 43
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CitingArticles&SID=2Ff at fn5aLE@n25mpCe9&db_id=WOS&parentQid=12&parentDoc=
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Abstract: We examine the principal journals of economics, with
particular attention to the communication between journals, as reflected
by the network of interjournal citations during 1987-90, and the changes
over the past century in the characteristics of the authors and the
techniques they have used. The numerical results, and those of the
statistical modeling of these results, reinforce the importance of
economic theory as an exporter of intellectual influence to applied
economics. The study includes an examination of the degree of
specialization among different subfields of economics. A statistical
model is presented for measuring the flow of intellectual influence (as
measured by citations) in terms of simple univariate scores.

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Eugene Garfield, PhD. email:  garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu 
home page: www.eugenegarfield.org <http://www.eugenegarfield.org/> 
Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266

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