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What do UK academics cite? An analysis of references cited in UK scholarly outputs

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posted on 2013-10-31, 14:09 authored by Claire Creaser, Charles Oppenheim, Mark Summers
This study used a bibliometric method to find quantitative evidence of publication and citing patterns within UK academia. The publications of a random sample of UK research—active academics for each of the years 2003 and 2008—were collected and analysed to gather data regarding referencing practices, along with any identifiable trends between the 2 years. References were categorised by type of material to show the proportions of each type used. Comparisons between the 2 years showed that the use of journal articles had increased. There was also an increase in the average number of publications per author. A large number of authors had no publications in the target years

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  • Science

Department

  • Information Science

Citation

CREASER, C., OPPENHEIM, C. and SUMMERS, M., 2011. What do UK academics cite? An analysis of references cited in UK scholarly outputs. Scientometrics, 86 (3), pp. 613 - 627.

Publisher

Springer / © Akademiai Kiado

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2011

Notes

This article was published in the journal Scientometrics [Springer / © Akademiai Kiado]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0321-6

ISSN

0138-9130

Language

  • en