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Citation of the literature by information scientists in their own publications

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  • Donald A. Windsor
  • Diane M. Windsor

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Frequencies of the number of references per paper were obtained for the information science literature represented by all papers cited in Information Science Abstracts, volumes 1–6 (1966‐1971). Almost one‐third of the papers had no references. Half of them had four references or fewer; two‐thirds had eight or fewer references. The ratio of papers without references to those with references was proposed as a measure of the scholarly status of a field. On this basis, information science was found to be less scholarly than pharmacy.

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  • Donald A. Windsor & Diane M. Windsor, 1973. "Citation of the literature by information scientists in their own publications," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 24(5), pages 377-381, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:24:y:1973:i:5:p:377-381
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.4630240509
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    1. Charlene L. Al-Qallaf, 2003. "Citation patterns in the Kuwaiti journal Medical Principles and Practice: The first 12 years, 1989-2000," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 56(3), pages 369-382, March.
    2. Tove Faber Frandsen & Jeppe Nicolaisen, 2023. "Defining the unscholarly publication: a bibliometric study of uncited and barely cited publications," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(2), pages 1337-1350, February.

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