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A note on “scholarliness” and “impact”

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    Abstract

    A moderate bu tconsistent positive correlation was found between the number of citations in a paper and the number of times it is cited. This result refers to a collection of papers published in the American Sociology in 1972 and 1973. The followign variables were controlled: journal, year of publicatiions, subject category of paper, number of authors, and seniority of author. Several explanations of this finding are suggested.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)360-362
    Number of pages3
    JournalJournal of the American Society for Information Science
    Volume34
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Sep 1983

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