Is the relationship between numbers of references and paper lengths the same for all sciences?

被引：16
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作者：
Abt, HA
Garfield, E
机构：
[1] Kitt Peak Natl Observ, Tucson, AZ 85726 USA
[2] Inst Sci Informat, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
来源：
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | 2002年 / 53卷 / 13期
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D O I：
10.1002/asi.10151
中图分类号：
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号：
0812 ;
摘要：
In each of 41 research journals in the physical, life, and social sciences there is a linear relationship between the average number of references and the normalized paper lengths. For most of the journals in a given field, the relationship is the same within statistical errors. For papers of average lengths in different sciences the average number of references is the same within +/-17%. Because papers of average lengths in various sciences have the same number of references, we conclude that the citation counts to them can be inter-compared within that accuracy. However, review journals are different: after scanning 18 review journals we found that those papers average twice the number of references as research papers of the same lengths.
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页码：1106 / 1112
页数：7
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