CITATIONS, OBSOLESCENCE, ENDURING ARTICLES, AND MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIPS
Abstract
In 1974, citations to the literature of an earlier year, say 1966, will be to a relatively small number of ‘enduring’ articles, the remainder having been forgotten. The currently cited literature of a particular growing subject will consist of the ‘enduring’ literature of earlier years, and the recent literature some of which will endure and some of which will ‘die’. There willl be more citations to recent literature because there is more of it. A trend towards multiple authorship may be reducing the growth rate of published articles.
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?
Due to the exponential increase in scientific output, citations become more probable from year to year.
“Due to the exponential increase in scientific output, citations become more probable from year to year.”
From What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior (2008) · cites this paper as Cawkell, 1976
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Sorted by citations
What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior
Bornmann, L., & Daniel, H. (2008) · Journal of Documentation · doi:10.1108/00220410810844150 · Cited by 1,607 · see citing works
- Authors
- CAWKELL, A. E.
- Corresponding author
- CAWKELL, A.E.
- Venue
- Journal of Documentation
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 1976-01-01
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 53-58
- ISSN
- 0022-0418 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2036313781
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 2.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Documentation (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Keywords
- citation analysis, multiple authorship, co-authorship, bibliometric analysis, scientific literature growth
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.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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