Work2013

Comparing book citations in humanities journals to library holdings : scholarly use versus 'perceived cultural benefit' (RIP)

17 citations0/0 files storedResearch at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

scientometrics and bibliometrics research Library Science and Information Library Collection Development and Digital Resources

Abstract

In this paper we examine the statistical relationship between citation counts to books referenced in SCOPUS humanities journals and library holding counts ('libcitations') retrieved from WorldCat®. Our focus is on books (with ISBN numbers) published between 2001-2006, which received citations in History and Literature & Literary Theory journals during the period of 2007-2011. A Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used, and our test resulted in significant correlations between the citations and 'libcitations'. We present and discuss the details of our dataset (extracted from a much larger, newly constructed database), and comment on why the 'perceived cultural benefit' of holding a book in a research library can lead to, but may not necessarily lead to use (i.e., a citation) of that book in new humanities research.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 17 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2015Supplementary Report I to the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management 2015Correlating Libcitations and Citations in the Humanities with WorldCat and Scopus Data 2018Book impact assessment: A quantitative and text-based exploratory analysis

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.