The preferences of authors of Chinese library and information science journal articles in citing Internet sources |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Information Management, Wuhan University, 16 Luojia Hill Road, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China;2. University Library, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA;3. College Library, Henan Police College, 1 East Longzi Lake Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, PR China;1. Key Labs of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Ministry of Education, China;2. School of Information, Renmin University of China, China;3. Research Center for Contemporary Management, Tsinghua University, China;4. Department of Management Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China;5. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | The preferences of the authors of Chinese library and information science (LIS) journal articles in citing Internet sources were investigated using eight premium Chinese LIS journals from Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (the observation group) and 10 journals in other disciplines (the control group) from the same database from 1999 to 2008. A total of 252,881 citations were analyzed in terms of count, domain name, and citing purposes. The results show that (a) in comparison to the disciplines in the control group, LIS articles in Chinese journals indicated a strong preference for citing Internet sources, and this preference is increasing; (b) LIS articles did not seem to discriminate against domain names when citing Internet sources; and (c) LIS articles cited more Internet sources as evidence to support research results and conclusions. Excessive dependency on Internet sources may raise concerns over the quality, research ethics, and credibility of research publications. Chinese LIS researchers should place more emphasis on the disadvantages of Internet sources as supporting material. Guidelines and criteria to help researchers, journal editors, students, and librarians assess information on the Web need to be developed. |
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