INLS
180 Day 13 Notes
Project commitments.
Several
types of browsing
Browsing
is legitimate search strategy!
Citation
analysis is one reflection of scholarly impact
Citations
build community and place work within it
Citation
behavior reflects human nature
Has citation analysis lowered the quality of
scholarship?
Are there better ways to study “stickiness”?
How are links & citations used? Applications? [e.g., collaborative filtering]
Is stickiness related to insider/outsider ideas
(Chatman)? Example of established musicians vs new ones
Don’t journal policies/reviews control citation
abuse?
Informetrics and Bibliometrics
queueing theory, circulation models, operations research
citation analysis, from individuals to groups to organizations; from doc to doc to doc to field to field to field
see http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/info_maps.html for maps of comm patterns
Problems of citation analysis
Multiple authors
Self-citations
Homographs (same name/different authors)
Synonyms (name variants)
Types of sources (books vs journals, some journals limit citations)
Implicit citations (discussed or implied but not cited)
Time fluctuations (year to year)
Field variations (e.g., humanities vs sciences)
Errors
See web of science from UNC Library page
See www.citeseer.com
Applications
Various literature studies
User studies
Historical studies
Communication patterns (e.g., how ideas spread)
IR (e.g., google, Clever today)
Collection development
Recommendation systems
Logical Assumptions (Griffith, Drott & Small)
1. X cited by Y is more likely to be related to Y than arbitrary A not cited
1. X cited by Y and A not cited by Y=>more likely that X was used in preparation of Y
2. Y and Z cite X=>more likely Y and Z are related than A and B citing no docs in common
Y cites X and Z=>X and Z more likely related to each other than to A not cited by Y (not co-cited with X and Y)
4 One-minute
paper concept
What was the big point you
learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered
question you leave class with today?