Normalizing Book Citations in Google Scholar: A Hybrid Cited-side Citing-side Method
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07 juin 2019
À propos de cet article
Catégorie d'article: Research Paper
Publié en ligne: 07 juin 2019
Pages: 19 - 35
Reçu: 04 févr. 2019
Accepté: 25 févr. 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2019-0007
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© 2019 John Mingers,Eren Kaymaz, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
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Summary statistics for the citation distributions_
| Mean | Median | SD | Skewness | Min | Max | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cites of target books | 200.3 | 69 | 331.9 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 2,543 |
| Cites per year | 15.6 | 5.6 | 24.7 | 3 | 0.1 | 168.9 |
| Mean cites/year of citing books | 7.9 | 5.9 | 9.1 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 80.5 |
| Normalized cites | 3.2 | 1.1 | 7.5 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 74.5 |
Variations in methods of normalization_
| Metric used for the normalization | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean number of citations received by comparator papers | Mean number of references in the comparator papers | ||
| Method for determining the comparator set of papers | WoS field list of journals | Traditional cited-side methods such as MNCS | Bornmann and Haunschild hybrid |
| Papers that have cited the target paper or journal | Mingers and Kaymaz hybrid in this paper | Traditional citing-side methods such as SNIP | |