Does author affiliation reputation affect uncitedness?. Issue 1 (24th February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lou, Wen; He, Jiangen
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 52:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 4
• Publication Date: 2016-02-24
• Subjects: Citation behavior -- scientometrics and scholar communication -- university ranking -- uncited paper -- correlation analysis -- uncitedness; Information science -- Congresses; Information technology -- Congresses; Information science; Information technology; Conference papers and proceedings; 020
• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2015.1450520100103
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-9231

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study analyzes the relation between author affiliation reputation and uncitedness. We use 2015 U.S. News Best Global University Subject rankings as representative of affiliation reputation and collect uncited papers from 24 journals in six subjects from WoS. Preliminary correlation analysis results indicate that: (1) there is a significant correlation between affiliation reputation and uncitedness. (2) their relation is negatively and weakly correlated. And secondary data collection and correlation analysis proved that relation between affiliation reputation and uncitedness vary in different subjects. The findings of this study would attract scientists' attention to avoid Matthew Effect and focus more on research papers rather than reputation when citing references.