A citation study of the characteristics of the linguistics literature

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Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 496-515

  Georgas, Helen ^a   Cullars, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 29144435667     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.66.6.496     Document Type: Article

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39. Only the Social Sciences Edition was consulted because an arts and humanities edition does not exist.
40. DeMiller, Linguistics.
41. Ben Novak, e-mail message to author, November 20, 2001.
42. Cullars, "Characteristics of the Monographic Literature of British and American Literary Studies," 511-22.
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50. Cullars, "Characteristics of the Monographic Literature of British and American Literary Studies."
51. _, "Citation Characteristics of Monographs in the Fine Arts."
52. _, "Citation Characteristics of French and German Fine Arts Monographs,"
53. _, "Citation Characteristics of English-Language Monographs in Philosophy."
54. Stern, "Characteristics of the Literature of Literary Scholarship."
55. Heinzkill, "Characteristics of References in Selected Scholarly English Literary Journals."
56. Budd, "Characteristics of Written Scholarship in American Literature."
57. Lindholm-Romantschuk and Warner, "The Role of Monographs in Scholarly Communication."
58. Broadus, "The Literature of the Social Sciences."
59. Lindholm-Romantschuk and Warner, "The Role of Monographs in Scholarly Communication."
60. Budd, "Characteristics of Written Scholarship in American Literature."
61. Cullars, "Characteristics of the Monographic Literature of British and American Literary Studies."
62. Heinzkill, "Characteristics of References in Selected Scholarly English Literary Journals."
63. Stern, "Characteristics of the Literature of Literary Scholarship."
64. Buchanan and Herubel, "Comparing Materials Used in Philosophy and Political Science Dissertations."
65. Cullars, "Citation Characteristics of English-Language Monographs in Philosophy."
66. Lindholm-Romantschuk and Warner, "The Role of Monographs in Scholarly Communication."
67. Cullars, "Citation Characteristics of Monographs in the Fine Arts."
68. _, "Citation Characteristics of French and German Fine Arts Monographs."
69. Nederhof, Zwaan, De Bruin, and Dekker, "Assessing the Usefulness of Bibliometric Indicators for the Humanities and the Social and Behavioral Sciences."
70. Nederhof's 1989 study stated that journal articles were "the most important single outlet" for disciplines in both the humanities and social sciences (p. 426). This contradicts the findings of other studies of the humanities literature. It also should be noted that this study examined the publication output of Dutch universities and so may not necessarily reflect trends in international scholarship.
71. Buchanan and Herubel, "Comparing Materials Used in Philosophy and Political Science Dissertations."
72. Cullars, "Characteristics of the Monographic Literature of British and American Literary Studies."
73. _, "Citation Characteristics of Monographs in the Fine Arts."
74. _, "Citation Characteristics of French and German Fine Arts Monographs."
75. _, "Citation Characteristics of English-Language Monographs in Philosophy."
76. Stern, "Characteristics of the Literature of Literary Scholarship."
77. Heinzkill, "Characteristics of References in Selected Scholarly English Literary Journals."
78. Budd, "Characteristics of Written Scholarship in American Literature."
79. Glanzel and Schoepflin, "A Bibliometric Study of Reference Literature in the Sciences and Social Sciences."
80. Zwaan and Nederhof, "Some Aspects of Scholarly Communication in Linguistics," 556.
81. Nederhof and Noyons, "International Comparison of Departments' Research Performance in the Humanities."
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84. Novak, e-mail message to author, May 31, 2001.
85. B. A. Sharada, "Citation Analysis of the Journal Indian Linguistics 1971-80," Indian Linguistics 46 (1988): 29-45.
86. Cullars, "Citation Characteristics of English-Language Monographs in Philosophy."
87. _, "Characteristics of the Monographic Literature of British and American Literary Studies."
88. _, "Citation Characteristics of Monographs in the Fine Arts."
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93. Zwaan and Nederhof, "Some Aspects of Scholarly Communication in Linguistics," 554.
94. The core journals for theoretical linguistics were: International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Language in Society, Language, Lingua, Linguistic Analysis, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistic Review, Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy, and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
95. Nederhof and Zwaan, "Quality Judgments of Journals as Indicators of Research Performance in the Humanities and the Social and Behavioral Sciences."
96. The core journals for general linguistics were: International Journal of American Linguistics, International Journal for the Sociology of Language, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Semantics, Language, Language in Society, Lingua, Linguistic Analysis, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistic Review, Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy, and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
97. McElhinny et al., "Gender, Publication, and Citation in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology."
98. These journals were listed as follows: Anthropological Linguistics, Language in Society, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, International Journal of Sociology of Language, and Language Variation and Change.
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100. Nederhof, Luwel, and Moed, "Assessing the Quality of Scholarly Journals in Linguistics."
101. Lynette Hunter, e-mail message to author, April 1, 2004.
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119. Cullars, "Citation Characteristics of Monographs in the Fine Arts."
120. _, "Citation Characteristics of English-Language Monographs in Philosophy."
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123. Hutchins, Pargeter, and Saunders, The Language Barrier.
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126. Zwaan and Nederhof, "Some Aspects of Scholarly Communication in Linguistics."
127. Nederhof and Noyons, "International Comparison of Departments' Research Performance in the Humanities."
128. Broadus, "The Literature of the Social Sciences," 236-43.
129. Glanzel and Schoepflin, "A Bibliometric Study of Reference Literature in the Sciences and Social Sciences."
130. Cullars, "Citation Characteristics of English-Language Monographs in Philosophy."
131. _, "Citation Characteristics of Monographs in the Fine Arts."
132. McElhinny et al, "Gender, Publication, and Citation in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology." 133.
133. McElhinny et al, "Gender, Publication, and Citation in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology." Ibid. 133.
134. Glanzel and Schoepflin, "A Bibliometric Study of Reference Literature in the Sciences and Social Sciences."
135. Nederhof, Luwel, and Moed, "Assessing the Quality of Scholarly Journals in Linguistics."
136. Nederhof, Zwaan, De Bruin, and Dekker, "Assessing the Usefulness of Bibliometric Indicators for the Humanities and the Social and Behavioral Sciences."
137. Line, "The Structure of Social Science Literature," 67-87.
138. Hunter, e-mail message to author.
139. Curiously, of the most highly cited journals for the cited sources, only the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research and Language are indexed in LLBA; Modem Language Journal and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America are not.