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Leavy, Marvin D. – 1980
This discussion of the use of citation frequency data in judging a cluster or an entire collection of journals in academic libraries discusses the rationale for this methodology, and illustrates its application by examining citation counts in ISI's Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for periodicals in the area of communication research. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Formative Evaluation
