Citations in Scientific Texts
Do Social Relations Matter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19064516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Béatrice Milard (0000-0001-8924-7146, corresponding author), Ludovic Tanguy (0009-0007-8535-8317, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1380-1395 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-1635 • E-ISSN: 2330-1643 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/asi.24061 |
| OpenAlex | W2886739254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article presents an investigation of the role of social relations in the writing of scientific articles through the study of in‐text citations. Does the fact that the author of an article knows the author whose work he or she cites have an impact on the context of the citation? Because citations are commonly used as criteria for research evaluation, it is important to question their social background to better understand how it impacts textual features. We studied a collection of science articles ( N = 123) from 5 disciplines and interviewed their authors ( N = 84) to: (a) identify the social relations between citing and cited authors; and (b) measure the correlation between a set of features related to in‐text citations ( N = 6,956) and the identified social relations. Our pioneering work, mixing sociological and linguistic results, shows that social relations between authors can partly explain the variations of citations in terms of frequency, position and textual context
Citation · CITES · Epistemology · Library science · Linguistics · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Academic Writing and Publishing · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · History · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |