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2015 | 53 | 2(106) | 65-83

Article title

Problem stabilności zachowań naukowców w zakresie cytowań w kontekście metodologii badań starzenia się publikacji naukowych i możliwość jego ujęcia ilościowego

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EN
The problem of stability of researchers’ citation behaviour and the possibility of qualititative approach in the context of the methodology of ageing studies of scientific literature

Languages of publication

PL EN

Abstracts

PL
CEL/TEZA: Celem przedstawionych badań jest empiryczne przetestowanie hipotezy o istnieniu cechy stabilności zachowań naukowców w zakresie cytowań, rozumianej jako ich względna niezmienność w długich okresach czasu. KONCEPCJA/METODY BADAŃ: W artykule podjęto próbę uzasadnienia i empirycznego ugruntowania synchronicznej metodologii badań starzenia się publikacji naukowych, w oparciu o analizę porównawczą zachowań w zakresie cytowań wykazywanych przez naukowców pracujących w obszarze inżynierii elektronicznej. W drodze analizy statystycznej zbadano rozkład prawdopodobieństwa wieku źródeł cytowanych w czterech reprezentatywnych dla dziedziny inżynierii elektronicznej periodykach naukowych i zestawiono uzyskane wyniki z rezultatami badania, które w odniesieniu do tych samych czasopism, przedstawił Emilio Matricciani w 1991 r. WYNIKI I WNIOSKI: Potwierdzono zgodność typów rozkładów prawdopodobieństwa, którym podlegają daty wydania cytowanych materiałów źródłowych (i tym samym charakter procesu starzenia się piśmiennictwa w wybranym obszarze nauki), co zaświadcza wstępnie o względnej stabilności zachowań w zakresie cytowań uczonych publikujących na łamach zagranicznych periodyków dziedzinowych, obejmujących swoim zakresem tematycznym inżynierię elektroniczną. ORYGINALNOŚĆ/WARTOŚĆ POZNAWCZA: W dotychczasowej literaturze przedmiotu publikowano jedynie prace, które poruszały podstawowy problem postawiony w niniejszym artykule tylko jako zagadnienie poboczne, usytuowane na marginesie głównego toku rozważań. Oryginalność zaproponowanego ujęcia omawianej tematyki zasadza się na wyraźnym wyartykułowaniu problemu, wykorzystaniu metody modelowania statystycznego do jego rozwiązania oraz wskazaniu płynących zeń implikacji, ważnych dla poznawczego uzasadnienia synchronicznej metodologii badań starzenia się literatury naukowej.
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PURPOSE/THESIS: The aim of the paper is to provide an empirical test of the hypothesis on the presence of the stability feature in researchers citation behaviour. The stability feature can be defined as a relatiye constancy of behaviour during long periods of time. APPROACH/METHODS: The authors made an attempt to yalidate and support a synchronous approach to the studies on scientific literaturo ageing, The analysis was done on the basis of a comparative study of citation behaviour of a selected group of researchers who publish in the field of electronic engineering. The authors used statistically oriented analysis to investigate the probability distribution of the age of sourcescitedinfour scientific journals representative for the whole field. The results were compared to those from the previous study of the same journals, presented by Emilio Matricciani in 1991. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The performed statistical analysis proved that the observed probability distributions of the age of papers cited in the selected foreign journals published at two different moments in time were almost identical. It means that the same conclusion can be drawn as regards the rate of the ageing process. This outcome tentatively confirms the existence of a hypothesized feature of the citation behaviour of the researchers who publish in the field of electronic engineering. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: The earlier literaturę of the field involves several papers related to the issue discussed in this paper, however only to a marginal extent. The authors who previously pointed at the need for justifying a synchronous methodology, treated this issue only as a subplot. The originality of the approach presented in this article is that (i) the problem has been clearly stated now, (ii) a statistical methodology to solve the problem has been suggested and (iii) implications crucial for the cognitive grounds of the synchronous method in the domain of scientific literature ageing analyses have been identified.

Year

Volume

53

Issue

Pages

65-83

Physical description

Dates

received
2015-08-19
revised
2015-12-01
accepted
2015-12-30

Contributors

  • Biblioteka Politechniki Rzeszowskiej, al. Powstańców Warszawy 12, 35 -959 Rzeszów
  • Zakład Informatyki Chemicznej, Wydział Chemiczny, Politechnika Rzeszowska im. I. Łukasiewicza, al. Powstańców Warszawy 6, 35 -959 Rzeszów
  • Biblioteka Politechniki Rzeszowskiej, al. Powstańców Warszawy 12, 35 -959 Rzeszów

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

ISSN
0324-8194
EISSN
2392-2648

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.desklight-d0837cb8-4ec0-4b3c-a4d3-a0d0fc5eaf76
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