Evidence of complex citer motivations

Citation Indexing-Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities

Jack Goodwin, Eugene Garfield · Technology and Culture · 1980 · 1.7K citations

Management, Linguistics, Information Retrieval +7

Referencing as Persuasion

Nigel Gilbert · Social Studies of Science · 1977 · 689 citations

Private acts and public objects: An investigation of citer motivations

Terrence A. Brooks · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1985 · 258 citations

Management, Communication, Discourse Analysis +8

PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION

Maurice Β. Line, A. Sandison · Journal of Documentation · 1974 · 182 citations

Arts, Information Technology, Documentation +8

Essays of an Information Scientist

Susan Crawford · JAMA · 1978 · 140 citations

Education, Information Systems, Information Theory +3