Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: This research presents an analysis of references collected by an established group of users who share a common interest on a social computing website.The purpose is to demonstrate how social computing functions as an instrument for measuring scholarly communication.The goal is twofold: to reveal how an analysis of the references collected by interested users compares to and complements citation studies.Citation analysis is dependent on its data set and the traditional data set is provided by the ISI indexes.Wouters (1998) describes the Science Citation Index (SCI) as "the first citation index aimed at the scientific literature as a whole" whose aim is to create "an image of this literature like a telephone book creates one of the inhabitants of a city (p.225).Lately, and for various reasons, there is interest in examining other indexes and databases, such as those provided by Scopus and Google Scholar (e.g.
Author: C. Sean Burns
Institution: University of Missouri
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1605265951