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Characterizing in-text citations in scientific articles: A large-scale analysis
We report characteristics of in-text citations in over five million full...
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All Fingers are not Equal: Intensity of References in Scientific Articles
Research accomplishment is usually measured by considering all citations...
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Citing and referencing habits in Medicine and Social Sciences journals in 2019
This article explores citing and referencing systems in Social Sciences ...
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Qualifying threshold of take off stage for successfully disseminated creative ideas
The creative process is essentially Darwinian and only a small proportio...
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MetaMetaZipf. What do analyses of city size distributions have in common?
In this article, I conduct a textual and contextual analysis of the empi...
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Developmental tendencies in the Academic Field of Intellectual Property through the Identification of Invisible Colleges
The emergence of intellectual property as an academic issue opens a big ...
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Should Citations be Counted Separately from Each Originating Section
Articles are cited for different purposes and differentiating between re...
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Characterizing References from Different Disciplines: A Perspective of Citation Content Analysis
Multidisciplinary cooperation is now common in research since social issues inevitably involve multiple disciplines. In research articles, reference information, especially citation content, is an important representation of communication among different disciplines. Analyzing the distribution characteristics of references from different disciplines in research articles is basic to detecting the sources of referred information and identifying contributions of different disciplines. This work takes articles in PLoS as the data and characterizes the references from different disciplines based on Citation Content Analysis (CCA). First, we download 210,334 full-text articles from PLoS and collect the information of the in-text citations. Then, we identify the discipline of each reference in these academic articles. To characterize the distribution of these references, we analyze three characteristics, namely, the number of citations, the average cited intensity and the average citation length. Finally, we conclude that the distributions of references from different disciplines are significantly different. Although most references come from Natural Science, Humanities and Social Sciences play important roles in the Introduction and Background sections of the articles. Basic disciplines, such as Mathematics, mainly provide research methods in the articles in PLoS. Citations mentioned in the Results and Discussion sections of articles are mainly in-discipline citations, such as citations from Nursing and Medicine in PLoS.
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