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The correlation between pertinence and rate of citation duplication in multidatabase searches

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  • Julie M. Neway
  • F. W. Lancaster

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The rate of citation duplication was examined In three databases: MEDLINE, BIOSIS, and LIFE SCIENCES COLLECTION. Duplicate citations were found to be more pertinent than unique citations. The duplicate citations came from a highly compact literature, whlle those from a single database were very widely scattered. The pertinent duplicated citatlons were more likely to be retrieved in searches that had more terms overall, had a higher percentage of thesaurus terms, and had terms which appeared in both title and abstract. These results suggest that the rate of duplication of citations in multidatabase searches may be used to rank output according to probable pertinence.

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  • Julie M. Neway & F. W. Lancaster, 1983. "The correlation between pertinence and rate of citation duplication in multidatabase searches," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 34(4), pages 292-293, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:34:y:1983:i:4:p:292-293
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.4630340410
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