citations bibliometrics

Bertin, M., Atanassova, I., Gingras, Y., & Larivière, V. (2016). The Invariant Distribution of References in Scientific Articles. Journal Of The Association For Information Science & Technology67(1), 164-177. doi:10.1002/asi.23367

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from the viewpoint of bibliometrics, how references are distributed along the structure of scientific papers as well as the age of these cited references

Once the sections of articles are realigned to follow the IMRaD sequence, the position of cited references along the text of articles is invariant across all PLoS journals, with the
introduction and discussion accounting for most of the references. It also provides evidence that the age of cited references varies by section, with older references being found in the methods and more recent references in the discussion.

different roles citations have in the scholarly communication process.

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