1976/01/01 by PAULINE A. SCALES · 2 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Biology #Citation #Citation analysis #Computer science #Information retrieval #Library Collection Development and Digital Resources #Library Science and Information Literacy #Library science #Mathematics #Rank (graph theory) #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Statistics #Test (biology) #Web and Library Services
paper · doi:10.1108/eb026612
openalex publication_date 1976/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Lists of journals ranked according to number of citations received are frequently used as indicators of usefulness, but little research has been carried out to test the validity of this hypothesis. On comparing lists of titles of journals ranked by citation counting with lists of the same journals, ranked according to frequency of use (using data from a survey at the National Lending Library), it was found that the rank order correlation between the two was low. This suggests that ranked lists produced by analyses of citations do not constitute valid guides for journal selection by libraries.