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ERIC Number: EJ331760
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1986
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Evidence of Complex Citer Motivations.
Brooks, Terrence A.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v37 n1 p34-36 Jan 1986
Group of 20 scholars attributed 29.3 percent of 437 references they had cited to one of seven motives, while describing motives for majority (70.7 percent) of references as combinations. Clustering of citer motives showed three groupings: (1) persuasiveness, positive credit, currency, social consensus; (2) negative credit; (3) reader alert, operational information. (12 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Authors, Citations (References), Cluster Analysis, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Indexing, Interviews, Motivation, Research Methodology, Tables (Data)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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