Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad

Pislyakov, Vladimir and Dyachenko, Ekaterina Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad. Scientometrics, 2009. (In Press) [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

We consider the "Matthew effect" in the citation process which leads to reallocation (or misallocation) of the citations received by scientific papers within the same journals. The case when such reallocation correlates with a country where an author works is investigated. Russian papers in chemistry and physics published abroad were examined. We found that in both disciplines in about 60% of journals Russian papers are cited less than average ones. However, if we consider each discipline as a whole, citedness of a Russian paper in physics will be on the average level, while chemistry publications receive about 16% citations less than one may expect from the citedness of the journals where they appear. Moreover, Russian chemistry papers mostly become undercited in the leading journals of the field. Characteristics of a "Matthew index" indicator and its significance for scientometric studies are also discussed.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Matthew index; Citedness; International comparison; Physics; Chemistry
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Vladimir Pislyakov
Date deposited: 17 Feb 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14233

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