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Treffer: Relationship between downloads and citations at journal and paper levels, and the influence of language

Title:
Relationship between downloads and citations at journal and paper levels, and the influence of language
Authors:
GUERRERO-BOTE, Vicente P, MOYA-ANEGON, Félix
Source:
Selected Papers of the 14th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), July 15-19, 2013, Vienna, AustriaScientometrics (Print). 101(2):1043-1065
Publisher Information:
Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.
Publication Year:
2014
Physical Description:
print, 1 p.1/2
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Information and communication sciences, Sciences de l'information communication, Documentation, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Sciences et techniques communes, Sciences and techniques of general use, Sciences de l'information. Documentation, Information science. Documentation, Sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques. Etude d'ensemble, Library and information science. General aspects, Bibliométrie. Scientométrie. Evaluation, Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation, Sciences de l'information et de la communication, Information and communication sciences, Bibliométrie. Scientométrie, Bibliometrics. Scientometrics, Analyse corrélation, Correlation analysis, Análisis correlación, Base de données, Database, Base dato, Citation, Citación, Indicateur, Indicator, Indicador, Périodique, Periodical, Periódico, Recherche scientifique, Scientific research, Investigación científica, Scientométrie, Scientometrics, Scientometría, Citation indicators, Download indicator, Language influence, ScienceDirect, Scientometric indicators, Scopus
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Departamento de Información y Comunicación, Grupo Scimago, Universidad de Extremadura, Plazuela Ibn Marwan, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Grupo Scimago, CSIC, CCHS, IPP, C/Albasanz, 26-28, 28037 Madrid, Spain
ISSN:
0138-9130
Access URL:
http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=search&terms=28892091
Rights:
Copyright 2015 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Sciences of information and communication. Documentation

FRANCIS
Accession Number:
edscal.28892091
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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Download indicators are of major potential interest because the great quantity of readily available download data means that any statistical inferences drawn from them will be of robust significance. We study the relationship between citation and downloads at the journal and paper levels, and the influence of language on that relationship. The data used were taken from the Scopus (citations) and ScienceDirect (downloads) databases. The results showed that downloads have limited utility as predictors of citation since it is in the early years when any correlations have the least significance. The relationship between downloads and citation also differs from one discipline to another. The relationship at the paper level is considerably weaker than at the journal level. This may be indicative of the number of downloads depending largely on the diffusion of the journal. In francophone regions, downloading from journals is proportionately less than citations to those same journals. There seems to be a part of citations to non-English-language journals which is invisible to Scopus. This makes the number of downloads proportionately greater than that of citations, leading to a lack of correlation between downloads and citations in that class of journal.