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Peer reviewedBrooks, Terrence A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Group of 20 scholars attributed 29.3 percent of 437 references they had cited to one of seven motives, while describing motives for majority (70.7 percent) of references as combinations. Clustering of citer motives showed three groupings: (1) persuasiveness, positive credit, currency, social consensus; (2) negative credit; (3) reader alert,…
Descriptors: Authors, Citations (References), Cluster Analysis, Correlation
