Method or madness? Educational research and citation prestige

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Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 279-288

  Corby, Katherine ^a  

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EID: 33751344972     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2001.0040     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Web of Science is described in more detail on the 1ST web pages
2. Barbara Frame, "The Citation Maze: A Beginner's Guide," Library Resources and Technical Services, (October, 1996): 371-374.
3. Eugene Garfield, "How to Use Citation Analysis for Faculty Evaluations, and When Is It Relevant?" In Essays of an Information Scientist, Volume 6, (Philadelphia: ISI Press, 1983), 354-372.
4. Michael H. MacRoberts and Barbara R. MacRoberts, "Problems of Citation Analysis: A Critical Review," Journal of file American Society for Information Science, (September, 1989): 342-349.
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7. Richard J. Kroc, Comparing Citation Rates with Other Measures of Scholarly Productivity (Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the American Educational Research Association Division J and the Association for the Study of Higher Education, San Francisco, CA., [ED253126]), 4.
8. Richard J. Kroc, "Using Citation Analysis to Assess Scholarly Productivity," Educational Researcher, June/July 1984): 20.
9. Tescione, 38-41
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11. ISI defines the "impact factor" as a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year. "Immediacy index" is "the measure of how quickly the 'average article' in a journal is cited. Journal Citation Reports (CD-ROM), Help Function, (Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1998).
12. James Testa, "The ISI Database: The Journal Selection Process," (1998). Available: Dune 7, 2000].
13. Ibid..
14. The journal list is available at , details of the selection process can also be found in the Testa article noted above.
15. At press time this list was available at . The central ERIC facility is in the process of taking over this task, so the page will move. The ERIC Resources page, available at should have the new address when it becomes available.
16. "Selection," ERIC Processing Manual, Section III, ed. by Ted Brandhorst, (Rockville, MD: ERIC Processing and Reference Facility, 1992 [ED348058]), 34
17. List available:
18. "Prefatory Note," Education Index, (September 1995): n.p.
19. M. Suzanne Brown, Jana S. Edwards and Jeneen LaSee-Willemssen, "A New Comparison of the Current Index to Journals in Education and the Education Index: A Deep Analysis of Indexing," Journal of Academic Librarianship, (May 1999): 220.
20. List available:
21. List available:
22. Edward Truman Funkhouser, "The Evaluative Use of Citation Analysis for Communication Journals," Human Communication Research, (June 1996): 563-574
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24. Brown, Edwards and LaSee-Willemssen, 216.
25. Education Abstracts/Index is more selective in the choice of journals, but indexes all 453 chosen cover-to-cover so there are no differing levels of indexing within the database.
26. Academic/scholarly publications, skipping non-English and foreign with no American indexing, Ulri cli's International Periodical Directory, 37th edition, (New York: Bowker, 1999).
27. Bluma C. Peritz," On the Objectives of Citation Analysis: Problems of Theory and Method," Journal of tile American Society for Information Science, (July 1992): 448-451.
28. Garfield, 355.
29. M. Cecil Smith, Russell N. Carney, Wesley C. Covalt, and Mary Beth Mann, "AERA Meeting Participants' Ratings of Journals in Their Discipline," Mid-Western Educational Researcher, (Summer 1993): 16