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. 2016 Jul;77(4):410-422.
doi: 10.5860/crl.77.4.410.

Using bibliometrics to demonstrate the value of library journal collections

Christopher W Belter  1 , Neal K Kaske  2
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Using bibliometrics to demonstrate the value of library journal collections

Christopher W Belter et al. Coll Res Libr. 2016 Jul.

Abstract

Although cited reference studies are common in the library and information science literature, they are rarely performed in non-academic institutions or in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences. In this paper, we analyze over 400,000 cited references made by authors affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration between 2009 and 2013. Our results suggest that these methods can be applied to research libraries in a variety of institutions, that the results of analyses performed at one institution may not be applicable to other institutions, and that cited reference analyses should be periodically updated to reflect changes in authors' referencing behavior.

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Figure 1
Total numbers of articles, references per article, and cited references per year for NOAA-authored articles from 2008 to 2013.
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Figure 2
Percentage of cited references in each year per year of age of the publication referenced.
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Figure 3
Age distribution, in years, of all the cited references in our analysis.
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Figure 4
Cumulative percentage of cited references per journal for the 75 most frequently referenced journals per year.
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Figure 5
Number of cited references per journal per year for the 50 most frequently referenced journals in 2013. Note the logarithmic scale of the y-axis.
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Figure 6
Journal co-citation network derived from the cited references of NOAA-authored articles published in 2013. Font size indicates the number of NOAA articles that referenced articles in each journal. Line size and darkness indicates higher numbers of co-citations between the connected journals. To focus the visualization on the strongest journal relationships, connections of less than 500 co-citations were removed and only the largest connected component is shown.
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