Journal Referencing
Abstract
We have tested the complaint that authors in certain countries do not adequately reference papers published elsewhere. We surveyed nine general (i. e., nonspecialty) English-language astronomical journals published in six countries and one region. For each we counted the annual totals of references to papers in those nine journals. We found in every case a preference to reference papers in the same journal. The excess averages 7.7% of all the references, and that excess has not changed since before 1980. Beyond that, the referencing patterns are similar for all nine journals except some journals reference more heavily than others the journals and monographs outside this set of nine.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- May 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1086/132467
- Bibcode:
- 1989PASP..101..555A
- Keywords:
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- LITERATURE ANALYSIS: astronomical journals;
- references