A new reference standard for citation analysis in chemistry and related fields based on the sections of Chemical Abstracts
A new reference standard for citation analysis in chemistry and related fields based on the sections of Chemical Abstracts
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-007-2007-2
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发表时间：
2009-02-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Daniel, Hans-Dieter
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作者：
Neuhaus, Christoph;Daniel, Hans-Dieter
出于评估目的的引文分析需要参考标准，因为不同领域的出版活动和引文习惯差别很大。以期刊分类方案为基础的参考标准在多学科和一般期刊的情况下充满了问题，并且在解决领域问题方面受到限制。为了克服期刊分类方案的这些缺点，我们提出了一个新的化学及相关领域参考标准，该标准是基于化学文摘数据库的部分。以2000年发表在《化学文摘》生物化学部分的研究论文为例，确定了参考标准的取值范围。结果表明，引文习惯不仅在不同领域之间差异很大，而且在领域内也存在很大差异。总体而言，化学文摘部分似乎是化学和相关领域参考标准的一个有希望的基础，原因有四：(1)相关文献的覆盖面更广，(2)标引的质量，(3)在多学科和一般期刊上发表的论文被分配到各自的领域，以及(4)比期刊分类方案(如生物化学和分子生物学)水平更低的领域的分辨率。
Citation analysis for evaluative purposes requires reference standards, as publication activity and citation habits differ considerably among fields. Reference standards based on journal classification schemes are fraught with problems in the case of multidisciplinary and general journals and are limited with respect to their resolution of fields. To overcome these shortcomings of journal classification schemes, we propose a new reference standard for chemistry and related fields that is based on the sections of the Chemical Abstracts database. We determined the values of the reference standard for research articles published in 2000 in the biochemistry sections of Chemical Abstracts as an example. The results show that citation habits vary extensively not only between fields but also within fields. Overall, the sections of Chemical Abstracts seem to be a promising basis for reference standards in chemistry and related fields for four reasons: (1) The wider coverage of the pertinent literature, (2) the quality of indexing, (3) the assignment of papers published in multidisciplinary and general journals to their respective fields, and (4) the resolution of fields on a lower level (e.g. mammalian biochemistry) than in journal classification schemes (e.g. biochemistry & molecular biology).