Paper Info
Title
Bibliographic and Web citations: what is the difference?
Abstract
Web citations have been proposed as comparable to, even replacements for, bibliographic citations, notably in assessing the academic impact of work in promotion and tenure decisions. We compared bibliographic and Web citations to articles in 46 journals in library and information science. For most journals (57%), Web citations correlated significantly with both bibliographic citations listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and the ISI's Journal Impact Factor. Many of the Web citations represented intellectual impact, coming from other papers posted on the Web (30%) or from class readings lists (12%). Web citation counts were typically higher than bibliographic citation counts for the same article. Journals with more Web citations tended to have Web sites that provided tables of contents on the Web, while less cited journals did not have such publicity. The number of Web citations to journal articles increased from 1992 to 1997.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1002/asi.10338
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
social sciences citation index,class readings list,intellectual impact,academic impact,bibliographic citation count,web citation count,web citation,journal impact factor,bibliographic citation,web site,periodical,world wide web,citation analysis,information science,comparative study,webometrics
World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Computer science,Citation,Information science,Citation analysis,Social Sciences Citation Index,Scopus,Publicity,Impact factor,Webometrics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
14
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
75
4.50
23
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liwen Vaughan191653.43
Debora Shaw232321.94