Emerging Challenges for Digital Resources Transformation: An Overview of Web Citation Analysis

Emerging Challenges for Digital Resources Transformation: An Overview of Web Citation Analysis

Suganya E., Vijayarani S.
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8587-0.ch017
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Abstract

Web citation analysis is emerging as an important subject of research in web mining, information retrieval, library science, etc. Scientific publications form a significant part of the research. The quality of the publication is determined by the citation which is to a published or an unpublished source. Citation analysis is used to evaluate the corresponding significance or an impression of an author or publication which is assessed by several times that an author or publication has been cited by other related works. It is useful in ascertaining the impression of a research article. It is useful in learning more about an area of knowledge. The main objective of this chapter is to provide knowledge about web citation analysis. A brief overview of web citation index, citation styles, citation-based metrics, and research challenges are discussed.
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Background

The background study of this chapter is discussed in table 1 which contains eleven literature studies related to web citation analysis. Many of the authors analyzed the web citations with different parameters and obtained results with greater accuracy. Nowadays researchers and academicians give importance to their publications with citations because that proves the quality of their research work. The authors interested to analyze digital web citations since 1999 but in this chapter given the literature studies from 2003 and recent related works are discussed. The background study discussed existing methods and techniques used by different authors at different times.

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