Functions of Uni- and Multi-citations: Implications for Weighted Citation Analysis

(1) To test basic assumptions underlying frequency-weighted citation analysis: (a) Uni-citations correspond to citations that are nonessential to the citing papers; (b) The influence of a cited paper on the citing paper increases with the frequency with which it is cited in the citing paper. (2) To...

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Main Authors: Zhao Dangzhi, Cappello Alicia, Johnston Lucinda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of Data and Information Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2017-0003