Paper Info
Title
The impact of impermanent Web-located citations: A study of 123 scholarly conference publications
Abstract
In this article the results of research that examined the permanence of 1,068 Web-located citations in 123 academic conference articles published between 1995 and 2003 are reported. The study is one of the few but increasing number of investigations that examines the growing practice of authors citing URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) in their publications to support and argue their scholarly research. It was found that some 46% of all citations to Web-located sources could not be accessed-with the HTTP 404 ("Page not found") message (61.5%) being the greatest cause of missing citations. Collectively, the missing citations accounted for 22.0% of all citations, which represents a significant reduction in the theoretical knowledge base underpinning many scholarly articles. It is argued that the consequences of disappearing Web-located citations has led to diminishing opportunities for future researchers to examination the underlaying foundations of discourse and argument in scholarly articles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1002/asi.20159
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Field
DocType
Volume
Information system,Data mining,World Wide Web,HTTP 404,Information retrieval,Computer science,Citation,Citation analysis,Scientific communication,Missing data,Knowledge base,Underpinning
Journal
56
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
1532-2882
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.81
8
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carmine Sellitto16810.83