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Citation theories in the framework of international flow of information: New evidence with translation analysis

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  • Ziming Liu

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Citation is a worldwide phenomenon. It needs to be considered in the international context. This study examines four common modalities (physical accessibility, cognitive accessibility, perceived quality, and perceived importance) underlying the complex citation practice by translation analysis. In an analysis of the Chinese literature in library and information science, it was found that there is a very strong correlation between languages cited and languages translated (r = 0.978). The overall national citation pattern of foreign publications is highly correlated with its translation pattern (r = 0.897). There is approximately 57% overlap between the group of the 60 most heavily cited authors and the group of the 60 most frequently translated authors. Highly cited publications are more likely to be translated (54.5 vs. 13.8%).

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  • Ziming Liu, 1997. "Citation theories in the framework of international flow of information: New evidence with translation analysis," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 48(1), pages 80-87, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:48:y:1997:i:1:p:80-87
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199701)48:13.0.CO;2-Y
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    1. Weiping Yue & Concepción S. Wilson, 2004. "Measuring the citation impact of research journals in clinical neurology: A structural equation modelling analysis," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 60(3), pages 317-332, August.
    2. Terttu A. M. Kortelainen, 2001. "Studying the international diffusion of a national scientific journal," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 51(1), pages 133-146, April.
    3. Horbach, Serge & Aagaard, Kaare & Schneider, Jesper W., 2021. "Meta-Research: How problematic citing practices distort science," MetaArXiv aqyhg, Center for Open Science.
    4. Tahamtan, Iman & Bornmann, Lutz, 2018. "Core elements in the process of citing publications: Conceptual overview of the literature," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(1), pages 203-216.

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