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Citation Patterns Of Environmental Scientists And Biologists At The University Of Massachusetts At Boston: Implications For Library Collection Development, Daniel Ortiz-Zapata
Citation Patterns Of Environmental Scientists And Biologists At The University Of Massachusetts At Boston: Implications For Library Collection Development, Daniel Ortiz-Zapata
Daniel Ortiz-Zapata
This study investigates the citation patterns of environmental scientists and biologists at the University of Massachusetts at Boston (UMB). The citation patterns of these academic scientists are compared to those in Journal Citations Reports (JCR).The findings suggest that the UMB environmental scientists and biologists have similar citation patterns to those of other scientists. There are differences in the median age of the journal cited by these scientists when compared to JCR. Yet the age of the items cited suggests that the library can weed some pre-1960 journals with minimal effect on the effectiveness of the library to satisfy …