Characteristics of a literature as predictors of relatedness between cited and citing works
Abstract
A preliminary investigation was conducted to explore which characteristics of citing and cited works may aid in determining relatedness between documents. Thirteen variables were tested on 31 library/information science articles containing nearly 500 citations. Analysis indicates that source of cited work, source of citing work, number of times a work is cited in text, and type of citing article show promise of predicting relatedness between citing and cited works.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
A document which is cited without being discussed in the citing document can be expected to be less relevant than one which is discussed in-depth within the citing document.
“A document which is cited without being discussed in the citing document can be expected to be less relevant than one which is discussed in-depth within the citing document (Bonzi, 1982).”
From Core Elements in the Process of Citing Publications: Conceptual Overview of the Literature (2018) · cites this paper as Bonzi, 1982
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Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
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- Authors
- Bonzi, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bonzi, Susan
- Venue
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1982-07
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 208-216
- ISSN
- 0002-8231 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-4571
- OpenAlex
- W2171663428
- Cited by
- 79
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 2.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Keywords
- citation analysis, citation characteristics, library and information science literature
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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