Factors Affecting Citation Rates of Research Articles
Factors Affecting Citation Rates of Research Articles
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DOI：
10.1002/asi.23209
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发表时间：
2015-04-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Yoshikane, Fuyuki
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文献类型：
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作者：
Onodera, Natsuo;Yoshikane, Fuyuki
本研究探讨了在影响文章引用数量的因素方面，各学科领域是否存在一些总体趋势，特别关注那些与文章质量或内容无直接关系的因素（外在因素）。为此，从6个选定的学科领域（凝聚态物理学，无机和核化学，电气和电子工程，生物化学和分子生物学，生理学和胃肠病学），在同一年发表的原创文章进行抽样（每个领域n=230-240）。然后，在相对较长的引文窗口（6年和11年后）的文章收到的引文计数预测的负二项多元回归（NBMR）分析的每个领域。作者合作，引用参考文献，知名度，作者的成就（衡量过去的出版物和被引用），和出版期刊的各种文章特征被认为是NBMR的解释变量。在选定的预测因子和这些预测因子的显著性程度方面，发现了一些跨领域的一般性。普赖斯指数是引文的最强预测因子，其次是参考文献数量。作者人数和作者成就测量的影响相当弱。
This study examines whether there are some general trends across subject fields regarding the factors affecting the number of citations of articles, focusing especially on those factors that are not directly related to the quality or content of articles (extrinsic factors). For this purpose, from 6 selected subject fields (condensed matter physics, inorganic and nuclear chemistry, electric and electronic engineering, biochemistry and molecular biology, physiology, and gastroenterology), original articles published in the same year were sampled (n=230-240 for each field). Then, the citation counts received by the articles in relatively long citation windows (6 and 11 years after publication) were predicted by negative binomial multiple regression (NBMR) analysis for each field. Various article features about author collaboration, cited references, visibility, authors' achievements (measured by past publications and citedness), and publishing journals were considered as the explanatory variables of NBMR. Some generality across the fields was found with regard to the selected predicting factors and the degree of significance of these predictors. The Price index was the strongest predictor of citations, and number of references was the next. The effects of number of authors and authors' achievement measures were rather weak.