Compares the citation patterns of "Counselor Education and Supervision" (CES) with those of the "Personnel and Guidance Journal,""Journal of Counseling Psychology," and "Counseling Psychologist." Results showed that, although there is some overlap, there is a sizeable and unique body of literature and pool…

Printed bibliographic descriptions of journal articles cited by BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS), Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), and Engineering Index (Ei) were compared to identify similarities and differences in form, format, and data content. (Author)

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)

A self-consistent methodology is developed for determining citation based influence measures for scientific journals, subfields, and fields. Starting with the cross citing matrix between journals or between aggregates of journals, an eigenvalue problem is formulated leading to a size independent influence weight for each journal or aggregate.…

A ranking list of biochemistry periodicals was prepared on the basis of citations in the Annual Review of Biochemistry'' for 1968-70. This list brings out the predominant position of biochemical research in the total scientific effort today, and the increasing bias of cognate disciplines towards biochemical methodologies. (7 references)…

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)

A ranking of periodicals in the field of microbiology which may help librarians, documentalist and research workers in choosing journals which most effectively cover the significant literature. Includes tables of rank and citation analysis. (Author/LS)

Considers the evidence for the existence of subject dispersion--the borrowing of literature from other disciplines--in the literature of political science. Bibliometric techniques are used to demonstrate inadequacies of existing information services in their coverage of literature cited by political scientists. (Author)

On comparing lists of titles of journals ranked by citation counting with lists of the same journals, ranked according to frequency of use, it was found that the rank order correlation between the two was low. (Author)

A data base of 540 articles from the Journal of Education for Librarianship" is analyzed to determine the nature of contents, the sources on which the authors base their material, and if there is a research front among the authors. (5 references) (MM)

A mathematical model is presented which explains the observed exponential growth rates of citations and references in a scientific discipline. The independent variables are the growth rate of the number of articles published and the decay rate of citation of old literature. (13 references) (Author)

A study was made of citations from the "American Educational Research Journal,""Review of Educational Research," and "Educational Researcher" to determine: (1) which journal is most cited; (2) sources that most cited the literature appearing in these journals; and (3) the citation characteristics of the most cited articles in each of these…

Analyzes the citation pattern among all communication journals covered by the first nine years of the "Journal Citation Reports" volume of the "Social Sciences Citation Index" (1977-1985). Notes that the communication field exhibits clustering and inbreeding, consisting of cliques of interpersonal journals, mass media journals,…