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The thematic and conceptual flow of disciplinary research: A citation context analysis of the journal of informetrics, 2007

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  • Gali Halevi
  • Henk F. Moed

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This article analyzes the context of citations within the full text of research articles. It studies articles published in a single journal: the Journal of Informetrics (JOI), in the first year the journal was published, 2007. The analysis classified the citations into in‐ and out‐disciplinary content and looked at their use within the articles' sections such as introduction, literature review, methodology, findings, discussion, and conclusions. In addition, it took into account the age of cited articles. A thematic analysis of these citations was performed in order to identify the evolution of topics within the articles sections and the journal's content. A matrix describing the relationships between the citations' use, and their in‐ and out‐disciplinary focus within the articles' sections is presented. The findings show that an analysis of citations based on their in‐ and out‐disciplinary orientation within the context of the articles' sections can be an indication of the manner by which cross‐disciplinary science works, and reveals the connections between the issues, methods, analysis, and conclusions coming from different research disciplines.

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  • Gali Halevi & Henk F. Moed, 2013. "The thematic and conceptual flow of disciplinary research: A citation context analysis of the journal of informetrics, 2007," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 64(9), pages 1903-1913, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:64:y:2013:i:9:p:1903-1913
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.22897
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    1. Lutz Bornmann & Robin Haunschild & Sven E. Hug, 2018. "Visualizing the context of citations referencing papers published by Eugene Garfield: a new type of keyword co-occurrence analysis," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 114(2), pages 427-437, February.
    2. Iman Tahamtan & Lutz Bornmann, 2019. "What do citation counts measure? An updated review of studies on citations in scientific documents published between 2006 and 2018," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 121(3), pages 1635-1684, December.
    3. Hyeonchae Yang & Woo-Sung Jung, 2015. "A strategic management approach for Korean public research institutes based on bibliometric investigation," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 49(4), pages 1437-1464, July.
    4. Marc Bertin & Iana Atanassova & Cassidy R. Sugimoto & Vincent Lariviere, 2016. "The linguistic patterns and rhetorical structure of citation context: an approach using n-grams," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 109(3), pages 1417-1434, December.
    5. Wang, Shiyun & Mao, Jin & Lu, Kun & Cao, Yujie & Li, Gang, 2021. "Understanding interdisciplinary knowledge integration through citance analysis: A case study on eHealth," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 15(4).
    6. Zhang, Chengzhi & Liu, Lifan & Wang, Yuzhuo, 2021. "Characterizing references from different disciplines: A perspective of citation content analysis," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 15(2).
    7. 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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