Carroll, C. (2016) Measuring academic research impact: creating a citation profile using the conceptual framework for implementation fidelity as a case study. Scientometrics, 109 (2). pp. 1329-1340. ISSN 0138-9130
Abstract
The “citation score” remains the most commonly-used measure of academic impact, but is also viewed as practically and conceptually limited. The aim of this case study was to test the feasibility of creating a “citation profile” for a single, frequently-cited methods paper, the author’s own publication on the conceptual framework for implementation fidelity. This was a proof-of-concept study that involved an analysis of the citations of a single publication. This analysis involved identifying all citing publications and recording, not only how many times the key paper was cited within each citing publication, but also within which sections of that publication (e.g. Background, Methods, Results etc.). Level of impact could be categorised as high, moderate or low. The key paper had been cited more than 400 times and had a high impact in 25 % of publications based on citation frequency within publications, i.e. the key paper was cited three or more times; and a low impact in 58 % of citing publications, i.e. the key paper was cited just once. There were 41 “high impact” publications based on location of the citations, of which 35 (85 %) were also categorised as high impact by frequency. These results suggest that it is both possible and straightforward to categorise the level of impact of a key paper based on its “citation profile”, i.e., the frequency with which the paper is cited within citing publications, thus adding depth and value to the citation metric.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Akade´miai Kiado´, Budapest, Hungary 2016. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Scientometrics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2016 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2017 17:17 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2085-0 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11192-016-2085-0 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106977 |