Result: The use of citation speed to understand the effects of a multi-institutional science center

Title:
The use of citation speed to understand the effects of a multi-institutional science center
Authors:
Source:
Tech Mining, Analysis, and VisualizationScientometrics (Print). 100(3):613-621
Publisher Information:
Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.
Publication Year:
2014
Physical Description:
print, 3/4 p
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Conference Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Enterprise Innovation Institute and School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30308, United States
ISSN:
0138-9130
Rights:
Copyright 2015 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Sciences of information and communication. Documentation

FRANCIS
Accession Number:
edscal.28700406
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

The extent to which an article attracts citations has long been of interest. However, recent research has emphasized not just the receipt but also the pacing of citation. Citation speed has been shown to be affected by journal prestige and self-citation but also public funding of research. Amidst these viewpoints, this paper explores the speed of article citation of a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary publicly funded research center relative to that of a comparison group of articles. Results indicate that articles by authors affiliated with the center are significantly more likely to have early-cited papers within the year of publication than the random comparison group, with controls by field also being significant. Implications for the ability of a publicly funded center to attract attention toward articles are discussed.