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Citations to papers in Vol.7 No.1 of Information Research

Eleven papers published, with 40 citations according to Google Scholar (Ave. 3.6). Three papers had no citations.

Analysis of the citations

Sources of citations	No.
Journal papers – online or print [Journal of Information Science, Information Research, Behavioral Science and the Law, JAMA, IEEE Trans. on Software Eng., Int. J. of Inf. Mgt., New Review of Info Behav Research, IFLA Journal, Arquivista.net, Strategic Change, Journal National Medical Association, Int. J. of Bank Marketing]	14
Conference proceedings	2
Conference papers on personal Websites – conference often unidentifiable.	7
‘Grey’ literature on personal or organizational Websites	8
Student papers [Two papers, one citing two different papers]	3
Course syllabus [Same syllabus citing two different papers.]	2
Information portal with document files	3
404 message	1

The list of journals suggest that the availability of papers in an open access e-journal not only increases the probability of citation as Steve Lawrence has shown, but perhaps also widens the range of journals that papers are likely to be cited in. A number of the journals listed could not be described as information science or information management journals by any stretch of the imagination.

I haven’t done an analysis of the locations of the non-journal documents, but they range widely internationally from New Zealand and Brazil to Switzerland and the USA, and I suspect that the geographic span of citing sources is wider than one might expect with closed access journals.

This looks like an interesting project for a student paper - anyone like to take it on?