A Quantitative Exploration on Reasons for Citing Articles from the Perspective of Cited Authors

Wang, Binglu; Bu, Yi; Xu, Yang

doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2787-6

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A Quantitative Exploration on Reasons for Citing Articles from the Perspective of Cited Authors

Wang, Binglu, Bu, Yi, Xu, Yang·2018·Scientometrics

DOI 10.1007/s11192-018-2787-6

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Journal impact indicators influence citing behavior because impact factors increase the visibility of papers based on an assumption that journals with higher impact indicators publish papers of higher scientific value.
“journal impact indicators influence citing behavior, firstly because impact factors increase the visibility of the paper based on an assumption that journals with higher impact indicators publish papers of a higher scientific value.”
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Papers published in high quality journals are cited more frequently.
“In turn, papers that are published in high quality journals are cited more frequently.”
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Citation-based impact indicators tend to create bias among authors when choosing a journal for publishing and when choosing which literature to cite.
“Thus, citation-based impact indicators tend to create bias amongst authors not only when choosing journal for publishing, but also when choosing which literature to cite [268,273-275].”
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Citations themselves are not equal because citations may have very different meanings determined by many reasons for citing.
“citations themselves are not equal, primarily because citations may have very different meaning, which is determined by the plethora of reasons for citing [266-268].”
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Authors: Wang, B., Bu, Y., & Xu, Y.
Affiliations: Peking University (CN)
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
ORCID: Wang, Binglu
Bu, Yi
Venue: Scientometrics
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2018-06-02
Volume: 116
Issue: 2
Pages: 675-687
ISSN: 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
1588-2861
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2787-6
OpenAlex: W2806942650
Cited by: 19
References: 70
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1
FWCI: 1.53
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Scientometrics (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
Keywords: citation networks, exponential random graph models, information retrieval, topical similarity

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