Core elements in the process of citing publications: Conceptual overview of the literature

[Display omitted] •We provide a conceptual overview of the literature on the process of citing publications.•The overview presents the results of studies having theoretically or empirically analyzed this process.•The overview is referred to as conceptual, because it is structured based on core eleme...

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Vydané v:Journal of informetrics Ročník 12; číslo 1; s. 203 - 216
Hlavní autori: Tahamtan, Iman, Bornmann, Lutz
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2018
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Citation
Citation behavior
Citation model
Citation theory
Decision making
Document usefulness
Information retrieval
Information seeking
Motivation to cite
Relevance criteria
Information seeking
Citation behavior
Decision making
Citation model
Relevance criteria
Document usefulness
Information retrieval
Citation
Citation theory
Motivation to cite
ISSN:1751-1577, 1875-5879
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Shrnutí:[Display omitted] •We provide a conceptual overview of the literature on the process of citing publications.•The overview presents the results of studies having theoretically or empirically analyzed this process.•The overview is referred to as conceptual, because it is structured based on core elements in the citation process.•The conceptual overview can be used to find answers on basic questions about the practice of citing documents.•The overview delivers basic information for the proper application of citations in research evaluation. This study provides a conceptual overview of the literature dealing with the process of citing documents (focusing on the literature from the recent decade). It presents theories, which have been proposed for explaining the citation process, and studies having empirically analyzed this process. The overview is referred to as conceptual, because it is structured based on core elements in the citation process: the context of the cited document, processes from selection to citation of documents, and the context of the citing document. The core elements are presented in a schematic representation. The overview can be used to find answers on basic questions about the practice of citing documents. Besides understanding of the process of citing, it delivers basic information for the proper application of citations in research evaluation.
ISSN:1751-1577
1875-5879
DOI:10.1016/j.joi.2018.01.002