An international comparison of journal publishing and citing behaviours |
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| Authors: | Fereshteh Didegah Mike Thelwall Ali Gazni |
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| Institution: | 1. Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK;2. Research Affairs of ISC, Shiraz, Iran;1. Centre for Organizational Research, Faculty of Economics, University of Lugano, Via Lambertenghi, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland;2. Department of Public Management, WU University, Vienna, Austria;3. Centre for Organizational Research, University of Lugano, Switzerland;4. Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC, Madrid, Spain;1. Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of China, Beijing, China;2. School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;1. École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, CP 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada;2. Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, CP 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada;1. Laboratory for Studies in Research Evaluation, Institute for System Analysis and, Computer Science (IASI-CNR), National Research Council of Italy, Italy;2. Department of Engineering and Management, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and Laboratory for Studies in Research Evaluation, Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science (IASI-CNR), Italy;3. Clarivate Analytics, Customer Success Team, Italy;1. School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China;2. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA |
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| Abstract: | The relationship between researchers’ publishing and citing behaviours has received little examination despite its potential importance in scholarly communication, particularly at an international level. To remedy this we studied documents and their references indexed in Thomson Reuters's Web of Science (WoS) in the period 2000–2009 to compare journal publishing behaviours against journal citing behaviours across the world. The results reveal that most publications in, and citations to, all five quality based strata of journals examined come from scientifically and economically advanced countries. Nevertheless, in proportion to their total number of citations given to WoS journals, it seems that less developed countries cite high-quality journals at the same rate as developed countries and so the poorer publishing of less developed countries does not seem to be due to a lack of access to top journals. Moreover, examining the publishing and citing trends of countries revealed a decreasing rate of high-income and Scientifically Advanced Countries (SACs) publications in, and citations to, all quality ranges of journals in comparison to the increasing rate of publications and citations of other groups. Finally, research cooperation between developed and less developed countries seems to positively influence the publishing behaviour of the latter as their publications co-authored with developed countries were published more often in top journals. |
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