Uncitedness
As Uncitedness (non-Zitierheit) is in the scientometrics and citation analysis referred to the fact that many scientific papers by other publications cited are. In principle, the number of citations per publication is very unevenly distributed and decreases exponentially over time.
Forms of uncitedness
Eugene Garfield distinguishes 3 forms of uncitedness:
- Uncitedness I: the work is irrelevant
- Uncitedness II: the work was forgotten or not found
- Uncitedness III: the work is so well known that it is no longer explicitly cited
In addition, a fourth form of uncitedness can be specified
- Uncitedness IV: the work is deliberately ignored
Reasons for deliberately not citing may be because
- the publication was not understood or contains both right and wrong, so that an assessment is not easily possible
- If you pay attention to it, your own mistakes would have to be admitted or your own work would be burdened by counter arguments
- the publication is superficially assessed as inferior or irrelevant (for example because it has not appeared in a recognized journal)
- the authors, institutions and / or hypotheses of the publication should not be upgraded.
Extent of uncitedness
In general, there is less uncitedness in the natural sciences than in the humanities ; However, it would be risky to derive higher productivity from this, since the forms of publication and the citation behavior differ depending on the discipline. For example, many citation databases also contain reviews that are naturally not cited.
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- ↑ presumably based on Walther Umstätter , see http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/%7Ewumsta/infopub/pub2001f/Bradford05fold.pdf
literature
- Eugene Garfield : Uncitedness III - The importance of not being cited . In: Current Contents 8, February 1973, pp. 5–6 ( pdf )
- CA Schwartz: The Rise and Fall of Uncitedness . In: College & Research Libraries . tape 58 , no. 1 , 1997, p. 19-29 , doi : 10.5860 / crl.58.1.19 .