Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences


Vol. 41 No. 4 , Pages 503 - 529 , 2004

A Citation Study of Life Science Authors in Taiwan (Article written in Chinese)

Ming-Yueh TSAY & Shu-Chen CHOU

Abstract

This study employed bibiometric methodology to investigate the productivity and impact of the life science research in Taiwan based on the literature published and the citation received. The research productivity study was completed in July 2002. The present study explored the impact of life science research in Taiwan, in terms of author citation analysis and self-citation analysis. The author data was drawn from the results of the previous study of research productivity. One hundred most productive authors were studied. The data of cited author and self-citation were searched from Web of Knowledge, Science Citation Index (SCI) database. The correlation between productivity and citation, between productivity and self-citation and between citation and self-citation were tested by the Pearson correlation coefficient. The results of the present study reveal that: For the 100 most productive and most cited authors, there are significant correlations between author productivity and citation counts, between citation counts and journal impact factor and between coauthor and self-citation, all with p < 0.01 or p < 0.05. However, the correlation between author productivity and self-citation is not significant with p > 0.01 or 0.05.

Keywords: Taiwan life science; author productivity; author citation counts; author self-citation; impact factor; co-authorship

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