A citation analysis study was conducted in the first two weeks of June 1999 at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study was intended to examine the impact of SILS research community on others. Five groups of SILS faculty and/or instructors were included in the study:Members of the first two groups were limited to faculty who are currently teaching or conducting research at SILS. Members of groups 3, 4, and 5 were limited to those part-time faculty and/or instructors who are teaching now or have taught at SILS in the last five years. The names of all members of all groups were provided by SILS.
- Full-time SILS faculty (assistant professors, associate professors, and professors);
- Special appointments;
- Adjunct appointments;
- Visiting appointments; and
- Summer appointments.
To compile as many citations obtained by the study participants as possible, data was collected from three different databases using DIALOG:
Citations for (and/or references to) the names of the participants with all their possible name variations were compiled and duplicates were removed.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980-May 1999),
- Science Citation Index (1974-May 1999), and
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1972-May 1999).
Many of the study participants had relatively more common names than others. For these participants, lists of publications were collected and were used to compile their citations. All names, whether common or unique, were searched both with and without using middle initials. Both "cited author" and "cited reference" searching capabilities were utilized. The "cited reference" searching function was also used to determine the works that were cited at least 10 times. The latter were termed "Distinguished Papers." A separate list of these works was created.
The citation study was revealing but also somewhat misleading. A number of SILS faculty have published monograph literature which are not indexed by the indexes used; others have published in European and other international journals which often are not indexed; and some have presented refereed papers at conferences that are not included here. Despite these limitations, the results show that many faculty publications are widely cited.
Below is a summary table of the faculty citations:
Citation Frequency of SILS Faculty
Name
Age of Oldest Work Cited
Pre-1993
1993-1995
1996-1999
Total
# of Self-Citations
Assistant Professors
Bert Dempsey
10
3
11
14
2
Claudia Gollop
2
1
1
Jane Greenberg
5
1
1
Greg Newby
11
4
14
23
41
6
Diane Sonnenwald
13
5
8
6
19
6
Brian Sturm
1
1
1
Charles Viles
7
1
8
19
28
2
Asst. TOTAL
10
33
62
105
16
Asst. Average
3
8
9
15
4
Associate Professors
David Carr
20
11
5
3
19
4
Stephanie Haas
10
2
7
11
20
8
Jerry Saye
16
19
4
2
25
2
Paul Solomon
7
1
13
24
38
4
Helen Tibbo
10
10
23
13
46
7
Barbara Wildemuth
10
8
15
33
56
7
Assoc. TOTAL
51
67
86
204
32
Assoc. Average
9
11
14
34
5
Professors
Evelyn Daniel
25
62
6
8
76
2
Joe Hewitt
29
82
8
8
98
4
Robert Losee
13
36
16
28
80
23
Gary Marchionini
14
92
95
145
332
21
Joanne Marshall
21
57
52
57
166
14
Barbara Moran
17
53
16
11
80
3
Professor TOTAL
382
193
257
832
67
Professor Average
64
32
43
139
11
Dist. & Emeritus
Edward Holley
38
123
10
7
140
7
Fred Kilgour
61
221
14
16
251
18
Dist. TOTAL
344
24
23
391
25
Dist. Average
172
12
12
196
13
GRAND TOTAL
787
317
428
1,532
140
GRAND AVERAGE
62
16
19
96
8
The following table shows the list of "Distinguished Papers," defined as those cited ten or more times (within the limitations of the study):
Distinguished Papers
Faculty Name
Work
No. of Citations
Daniel, Evelyn H.
Special Libraries '82
JASIS '8310
11Hewitt, Joe A.
Am Libraries '76
Libr Res Tech Services '8917
16Holley, Edward, G.
Raking Hist '67
C & RL '72
C & RL '7611
12
17Kilgour, Frederick G.
Am Documentation '61
Bull Med Libr Assoc '62
ASIS Proceedings '70
J Libr Auto '71
J Libr Auto '72
Am Libraries '7211
12
23
22
37
11Losee, Robert M.
Proceeding ACM '86
JASIS '88
Inf Process & Manag '88
Science of Information '90
Inf Process & Manag '9115
24
10
15
10Marchionini, Gary
Can J Inf Sci '87
Computer '88
Education Tech '88
Int J Man Mach Stud '89
JASIS '89
ASIS Proceedings '90
Can J Inf Sci '91
JASIS '92
LISR '93
Information Seeking '95
Communic ACM '9522
100
35
21
49
16
11
19
12
43
13Marshall, Joanne Gard
B Med Lib Assoc '78
J Med Educ '81
B Med Lib Assoc '89
B Med Lib Assoc '92
B Med Lib Assoc '9311
14
15
59
12Moran, Barbara B.
C & RL '83
C & RL' 87
C & RL '8917
12
15Solomon, Paul
JASIS '93
27
Tibbo, Helen R.
ARIST '91
LISR '92
Abstracting, IR '9310
10
10Viles, Charles L.
Appl. Environ Micro '92
26
Wildemuth, Barbara M.
ASIS Proceedings '91
10