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

Purpose: (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...

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Main Authors: Dangzhi Zhao, Alicia Cappello, Lucinda Johnston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Data and Information Science
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Online Access:https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jdis.2017.2.issue-1/jdis-2017-0003/jdis-2017-0003.xml?format=INT