8000 CitationsAre You CRAZY

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8000 CitationsAre You CRAZY!?
Paula Storm Jackie Wrosch Bob Kelly
Susann deVries
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What We Did

• Retrieved and analyzed all articles and citations
  identified by WOS of EMU affiliate authors from
  2005-2007
• Conducted a web survey of those EMU authors.
• Interviewed a sampling of authors representing
  different departments within EMU.

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Citation Analysis -- Disadvantages

• Primary focus is on the needs of those who do
  research.
• Identification of items that may not be useful
  to undergraduate students.
• Inclusion of ceremonial and self-citations.
• Multi-authored works.
• Criticism that WOS is biased toward English
  language periodicals.
• Papers are increasingly published online via
  open-access journals, personal homepages, or in
  institutional repositories and are not indexed in
  WOS.

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Web of Science How the Dataset was Created

• Searched WoS for EMU authors.
• Data was downloaded and saved as CSV file.
• Authors and Cited References were formatted in a
  single field.
• This field was parsed using Perl scripts creating
  the tables of authors, published articles and
  citations.
• The three resulting tables were all imported into
  an Access database.
• This database was used to determine the most
  frequently published EMU authors and cited
  journals.
• We determined of EMU ownership/access to 244
  articles and 8,643 article citations.  

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Analysis of Journals in which EMU faculty
published between 2005-2007

• Number of publishing EMU faculty 121
• Number of journal articles 244
• Number of unique journal titles 209
• Number of journals owned by EMU 183 or 87.56.
• Total number of citations 8,643

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Citation Analysis

• How
• What
• Why (value of doing this)
• Results

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Citation Analysis Did We Own It?
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Citations we own by Material Type
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Most Frequently Cited Journals A Bakers Dozen
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Who Published?
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Who Published? Sciences by Department
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Survey

• Do faculty use the EMU Halle Library collection?

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1. Did you use the EMU Halle Library's resources
for the articles that you published between
2005-2007?
I use EMU and UM libraries all the time. Many
journals we do not subscribe (or cancelled
subscription) are available at UM so are some
books.
Did not need to. I had access to the material
needed in my personal library.
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2. Which EMU Halle library resources or
services did you use for your research?
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3. If the EMU Halle Library did not have the
resources you needed, what other resources did
you use?
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4. Please indicate all other libraries you used
for your research.
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5. Why did you use these specific libraries'
resources for your research?
Collaborative research with UM faculty.
I am a visiting lecturer and I have access to
their resources.
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6. What are the resources or services you used at
these other libraries?
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7. With what EMU department are you affiliated?

• STEM Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics,
  Computer Science, Nursing, Physics and Astronomy-
  51.61
• History and Philosophy-3.23
• Political Science-12.9
• Psychology-12.9
• Education- 9.68
• Business-6.45

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8. Please comment on how well EMU library
resources supported your research for the
articles you published between 2005-2007.
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Faculty Interviews

• Survey Anonymous
• Face-to-Face
• In-depth conversation
• Criteria for whom to interview
• Outcomes
• Trust library resources
• Librarian support

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Impacts on Collection Development

• Online journal packages Support undergraduate,
  graduate, and in part faculty research
• Citations may provide basis for identifying core
  titles (monograph/journals) that could be added
  to collection
• Humanities Education research activity Needs
  more investigation
• Funding request tool

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Our Future Plans

• Interview all 120 EMU authors
• Complete review of all citations (about 5
  remain)
• Do more in-depth statistical analysis
• Analyze journal titles using Journal Citation
  Report

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Questions

• Robert Kelly robert.kelly_at_emich.edu
• Susann deVries sdevries_at_emich.edu