[Purpose/significance] A citation context is a descriptive or evaluative sentence in scientific papers that contains references. By extracting and analyzing the cue words in the citation context, we are able to identify the citation behavior and motivations. [Method/process] Taking citation contexts in Journal of Informetrics as an example, we selected three kinds of commonly used cue words, such as personal pronouns, behavioral verbs and conjunctions, and respectively calculated the frequency, proportion and ranking in the citation context. By comparing the existence of cue words in the citation context and non-citation context, the common sentence pattern of citation contexts was characterized. [Result/conclusion] In Journal of Informetrics, the citation context mainly shows the following characteristics:a) focusing on the first-person and third-person perspectives, the citation context not only shows the works of others, but also shows the authors' own research; b) citing papers prefer to citing references involved research methods, and the most commonly used behavior verbs are"use" "base" and "study"; c) adversative and enumerative sentences are the main demonstration modes. The most used conjunctions are"also" and "but". In conclusion, the citation context analysis based on cue words has important value and significance for us to better understand the functions and motivations of citations in scientific papers.
Hu Zhigang
,
Sun Tai'an
,
Wang Xianwen
. Citation Context Analysis Based on Cue Words:A Case Study of Journal of Informetrics[J]. Library and Information Service, 2017
, 61(23)
: 25
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DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2017.23.003
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