{"title":"Citation Data and Analysis: Limitations and Shortcomings","authors":"J. Worrall, E. Cohn","doi":"10.1177/10439862231170972","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As a means for measuring scholarly influence, citation analysis has several limitations and shortcomings. We first review the main sources of citation data (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and information collected directly from reference lists) and discuss the shortcomings of each source. Next, we review five significant limitations of citation analysis as a methodology (academic over popular interest, various motivations for citing, manipulation potential, failure to account for author ordering, and citations only appearing in “indexed” journals). The issues we touch on set the stage for the remainder of the articles in this special issue.","PeriodicalId":47370,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice","volume":"39 1","pages":"327 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10439862231170972","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
As a means for measuring scholarly influence, citation analysis has several limitations and shortcomings. We first review the main sources of citation data (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and information collected directly from reference lists) and discuss the shortcomings of each source. Next, we review five significant limitations of citation analysis as a methodology (academic over popular interest, various motivations for citing, manipulation potential, failure to account for author ordering, and citations only appearing in “indexed” journals). The issues we touch on set the stage for the remainder of the articles in this special issue.
引文分析作为衡量学术影响力的一种手段，有几个局限性和不足。我们首先回顾了引文数据的主要来源（Web of Science、Scopus、Google Scholar和直接从参考文献列表中收集的信息），并讨论了每个来源的缺点。接下来，我们回顾了引用分析作为一种方法论的五个重要局限性（学术性超过大众兴趣、引用的各种动机、操纵潜力、未能解释作者排序以及引用仅出现在“索引”期刊中）。我们所涉及的问题为本期特刊的其余文章奠定了基础。
期刊介绍：
The Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice presents single-themed special issues that focus on a critical issue in contemporary criminal justice in order to provide a cogent, thorough, and timely exploration of the topic. Subjects include such concerns as organized crime, community policings, gangs, white-collar crime, and excessive police force.
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