Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals

The number of citations a paper receives is the most commonly used measure of scientific impact. In this paper, we study not only the number but also the type of citations that 659 marketing articles generated. We discern five citation types: application, affirmation, negation, review and perfunctor...

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Autores: Stremersch, S. (Stefan)|||/items/87cdb0b7-d1d7-4504-9d85-1544f561ea06, Camacho, N. (Nuno)|||/items/6458fd76-11c6-4ca6-8fdc-70c3b47b021a, Vanneste, S. (Sofie)|||/items/4bb178cd-e3a0-427a-b9ea-d30cab7dbedb, Verniers, I. (Isabel)|||/items/a876f6e4-d2c9-48a7-8d04-a1fe923f8107
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/69279
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/69279
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Science
Citation
Scientometrics
Philosophy of science
Marketing
Innovation
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spelling Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journalsStremersch, S. (Stefan)|||/items/87cdb0b7-d1d7-4504-9d85-1544f561ea06Camacho, N. (Nuno)|||/items/6458fd76-11c6-4ca6-8fdc-70c3b47b021aVanneste, S. (Sofie)|||/items/4bb178cd-e3a0-427a-b9ea-d30cab7dbedbVerniers, I. (Isabel)|||/items/a876f6e4-d2c9-48a7-8d04-a1fe923f8107ScienceCitationScientometricsPhilosophy of scienceMarketingInnovationThe number of citations a paper receives is the most commonly used measure of scientific impact. In this paper, we study not only the number but also the type of citations that 659 marketing articles generated. We discern five citation types: application, affirmation, negation, review and perfunctory mention (i.e., citing an article only indirectly without really using it). Prior literature in scientometrics recognizes that the former three types, on average, signal a higher level of scientific indebtedness than the latter two types. In our sample, these three types of citation represent only 15% of all citations. We also find different determinants of citation behavior across citation types. Across the 49 determinants we included, only 13 have the same effect across all citation types, of which only 5 are statistically significant across all citation types. For instance, we find a significant inverted U-effect of challenging commonly held beliefs on citation counts, but only for three of the citation types: affirmation, review and perfunctory mention. Our results encourage scientific stakeholders to move beyond mere citation counts to assess a paper's or a scholar's scientific contribution, as well as to devote greater attention to the citation process itselfElsevierDadun. Depósito Académico Digital Universidad de Navarra20242024-03-2620142014-10-1220142014-10-12journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10171/69279reponame:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarrainstname:Universidad de NavarraInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/692792026-06-21T12:47:57Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals
title Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals
spellingShingle Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals
Stremersch, S. (Stefan)|||/items/87cdb0b7-d1d7-4504-9d85-1544f561ea06
Science
Citation
Scientometrics
Philosophy of science
Marketing
Innovation
title_short Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals
title_full Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals
title_fullStr Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals
title_full_unstemmed Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals
title_sort Unraveling scientific impact: Citation types in marketing journals
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Stremersch, S. (Stefan)|||/items/87cdb0b7-d1d7-4504-9d85-1544f561ea06
Camacho, N. (Nuno)|||/items/6458fd76-11c6-4ca6-8fdc-70c3b47b021a
Vanneste, S. (Sofie)|||/items/4bb178cd-e3a0-427a-b9ea-d30cab7dbedb
Verniers, I. (Isabel)|||/items/a876f6e4-d2c9-48a7-8d04-a1fe923f8107
author Stremersch, S. (Stefan)|||/items/87cdb0b7-d1d7-4504-9d85-1544f561ea06
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Camacho, N. (Nuno)|||/items/6458fd76-11c6-4ca6-8fdc-70c3b47b021a
Vanneste, S. (Sofie)|||/items/4bb178cd-e3a0-427a-b9ea-d30cab7dbedb
Verniers, I. (Isabel)|||/items/a876f6e4-d2c9-48a7-8d04-a1fe923f8107
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author2 Camacho, N. (Nuno)|||/items/6458fd76-11c6-4ca6-8fdc-70c3b47b021a
Vanneste, S. (Sofie)|||/items/4bb178cd-e3a0-427a-b9ea-d30cab7dbedb
Verniers, I. (Isabel)|||/items/a876f6e4-d2c9-48a7-8d04-a1fe923f8107
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Science
Citation
Scientometrics
Philosophy of science
Marketing
Innovation
topic Science
Citation
Scientometrics
Philosophy of science
Marketing
Innovation
description The number of citations a paper receives is the most commonly used measure of scientific impact. In this paper, we study not only the number but also the type of citations that 659 marketing articles generated. We discern five citation types: application, affirmation, negation, review and perfunctory mention (i.e., citing an article only indirectly without really using it). Prior literature in scientometrics recognizes that the former three types, on average, signal a higher level of scientific indebtedness than the latter two types. In our sample, these three types of citation represent only 15% of all citations. We also find different determinants of citation behavior across citation types. Across the 49 determinants we included, only 13 have the same effect across all citation types, of which only 5 are statistically significant across all citation types. For instance, we find a significant inverted U-effect of challenging commonly held beliefs on citation counts, but only for three of the citation types: affirmation, review and perfunctory mention. Our results encourage scientific stakeholders to move beyond mere citation counts to assess a paper's or a scholar's scientific contribution, as well as to devote greater attention to the citation process itself
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