A study found that an average of 48.6 percent of test papers from "Nature" was found to remain uncited in any year. (Author/PF)

"Science Citation Index" was used to determine the uncitedness of 222 articles published in the "Journal of the American Chemical Society" (January-February 1965). (Author)

To identify and describe selected characteristics of the research literature of the basic medical science area of physiology during the three-year period 1970-72, this literature was analyzed to determine where, when, by what subject area, and in what countries it was published. (Author/PF)

Discusses whether there is a difference in the value of a citation depending on where in the body of the citing article it occurs; and whether those cited articles to which reference is made more than once within a citing article are more valuable to the user than those cited only once. (Author)

Discussion of the use of citation indexes for faculty evaluation focuses on potential inequities such as uneven coverage in the discipline of education. Examines Social Sciences Citation Index; and compares its journal selection process with other educational indexing services, including ERIC. (LRW)

The structure and interrelations of the biomedical journal literature are investigated as a preparatory step for studies of biomedical research activity. (Author)

Reports on Social Sciences Citation Index citations of six periodicals, three that cover business communication explicitly and three that address related areas. Finds that business communication articles are cited by many different journals, but with low frequency, and that business communication periodicals compare favorably on several indices of…

Studies the relation between journal median citation age and the number of articles in the journal. Discusses statistical explanations, including graphs of clouds of points and the Central Limit Theorem; and considers explanations of regularities in informetrics, based on statistical, probabilistic, or informetric results. (Author/LRW)

This study examined the feasibility of creating a viable citation index in the humanities. A total of 5924 citations appended to articles written between 1971-1973 and appearing in three English language literary criticism journals were analyzed for their form and degree of content relationship to the subject matter of the articles in which they…

Describes a study that tested the status-role hypothesis by examining the citation networks of geographic journals at distinct time points. The need to consider time factors and disciplinary conditions when interpreting clustering representations is discussed. (25 references) (CLB)

Presents the results of a study of Science Citation Index (SCI) as a source for developing indicators of international scientific activity. Journal counts based on SCI and British Library Lending Division (BLLD) cataloging records are compared and reference patterns in key journals are described. Eleven references are listed. (JL)

Data from the Social Science Citation Index were used to rank publication records of 788 scholars in 12 industrial relations and related journals from 1983-88. Such analysis could be used as one objective measure of research excellence in promotion and tenure decisions. (SK)

Provides an overview of the professional work of Irving Sher. Highlights include his role in the development and implementation of Science Citation Index; the development of the first selective dissemination of information system; development of the journal impact factor; a system of coding references; and citation-based historiography. (LRW)

Describes a hypothetical model dissemination system in three stages: 1) multiple source subject search to find a field's most useful journals; 2) scanning these journals for each recipient; 3) use of citation and bibliographic coupling techniques to improve stage 2. (Author/LS)