Functions of Uni- and Multi-citations: Implications for Weighted Citation Analysis

Abstract

(1) To test basic assumptions underlying frequency-weighted citation analysis: (a) Uni-citations correspond to citations that are nonessential to the citing papers; (b) The influence of a cited paper on the citing paper increases with the frequency with which it is cited in the citing paper. (2) To explore the degree to which citation location may be used to help identify nonessential citations.

Keywords

• weighted citation analysis
• citation function
• research evaluation
• in-text citation analysis
• re-citation analysis