"Negative" citations?

[C. Sean Burns]

See, as an example, Jeppe Nicolaisen (and his lit review in the paper):

Nicolaisen, J. (2002). The j-shaped distribution of citedness. Journal
of Documentation, 58 (4), 383-395.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00220410210431118

Abstract from the above paper:

> A new approach for investigating the correlation between research
> quality and citation counts is presented and applied to a case study
> of the relationship between peer evaluations reflected in scholarly
> book reviews and the citation frequencies of reviewed books. Results
> of the study designate a J-shaped distribution between the considered
> variables, presumably caused by a skewed allocation of negative
> citations. The paper concludes with suggestions for further
> research.

On 08/10/2013 05:30 PM, B.G. Sloan wrote:
> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html All this citation talk
> reminds of a question that pops into my head every now and then. This
> may be a dumb question, but here goes anyway... I'm assuming there is
> something like a "negative" citation...where an author cites a paper,
> but in a less-than-flattering light? Bernie Sloan

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