In last week’s tribute to Derek Price, the importance of methods and instruments i,l the advance of science was stressed. I Before he died, Derek published several articles and books on this topic.2 He argued that many conceptual breakthroughs would not have been possible without first developing techniques and instruments to approach basic problems. Indeed, the development of new instruments a...

purpose: aiming at the examination of undergraduate student citation behavior, this essay studied the effect of class year, academic discipline and the students' course level components upon the citation behavior and the numbers and the type of citation, as well. methodology: this research conducted in bucknell university in 2002. it was done in field study using 583 bibliography referred ...

The under-attribution of women’s contributions to scientific scholarship is well known and studied. One measure this the citation gap between men women: under-citation papers authored by women relative expected rates coupled with an over-citation rates. Here we explore in contemporary physics. We find a global bias wherein are significantly under-cited, over-cited. Moreover, that behaviour vari...

Citation recommendation systems mainly help researchers find the lists of references that related to their interests effectively and automatically. The existing approaches face issues data sparsity high-dimensional in large-scale bibliographic network representation, which hinder citation performance. To address these problems, we proposed a Content-Sensitive representation approach for Recomme...