New search modes have been introduced recently in SOWIPORT to support the exploratory search on the basis of automatically linked references and citations. References are therefore linked to the complete data corpus via specific matching procedures. With this approach we have done a major step towards a navigable citation index in the field of the German social sciences.

Conventional standards for bibliography styles entail a forced choice between index and name/year citations and corresponding references. We reject this false dichotomy, and describe a multibibliography, comprising alphabetic, sequenced, and even chronological orderings of references. An extended inline citation format is also proposed to integrate such heterogeneous styles, and is usable and u...

The paper introduces a new journal impact measure called The Reference Return Ratio (3R). Unlike the traditional Journal Impact Factor (JIF), which is based on calculations of publications and citations, the new measure is based on calculations of bibliographic investments (references) and returns (citations). A comparative study of the two measures shows a strong relationship between the 3R an...

Journal-based citations are an important source of data for impact indices. However, the impact of journal articles is not limited to other scholarly material, but extends beyond formal scholarly discourse. Measuring online scholarly impact calls for new indices, complementary to the older ones. In this article, we study a possible alternative metric source, blog posts aggregated at ResearchBlo...

In citation network analysis, complex behavior is reduced to a simple edge, namely, node A cites node B. The implicit assumption is that A is giving credit to, or acknowledging, B. It is also the case that the contributions of all citations are treated equally, even though some citations appear multiply in a text and others appear only once. In this study, we apply text-mining algorithms to a r...

We report characteristics of in-text citations in over five million full text articles from two large databases – the PubMed Central Open Access subset and Elsevier journals – as functions of time, textual progression, and scientific field. The purpose of this study is to understand the characteristics of in-text citations in a detailed way prior to pursuing other studies focused on answering m...

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