Mukherjee B. "The hyperlinking pattern of open-access journals in library and information science: A cited citing reference study" Lib & Info Sci Res 31 (2). APR 2009. p.113-125

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail : mukherjee.bhaskar at gmail.com

TITLE: The hyperlinking pattern of open-access journals in library and 
information science: A cited citing reference study (Article, English) 

AUTHOR :  Mukherjee, B

SOURCE: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH 31 (2). APR 2009.        
p.113-125 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK 

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ABSTRACT: Using 17 open-access journals published without 
interruption between 2000 and 2004 in the field of library and 
information science. this study compares the pattern of cited/citing 
hyperlinked references of Web-based scholarly electronic articles under 
various citation ranges in terms of language, file format, source and top- 
level domain. While the patterns of cited references were manually 
examined by counting the live hyperlinked-cited references, the patterns 
of citing references were examined by using the cited by tag in Google 
Scholar. The analysis indicates that although language, top-level domain, 
and file format of citations did not differ significantly for articles 
under different citation ranges, sources of citation differed 
significantly for articles in different citation ranges. Articles with 
fewer citations mostly cite less-scholarly sources such as Web pages, 
whereas articles with a higher number of citations mostly cite scholarly 
sources such as journal articles, etc. The findings suggest that 8 out of 
17 OA journals in LIS have significant research impact in the scholarly 
communication process. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 

AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Mukherjee, Banaras Hindu Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, 
                Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India