Factors affecting funding and citation rates in information science publications

Abstract

This research studies the relationship among funding, citation rates, and other variables in a sample of information science articles. Every substantive article in three volumes (1972-1974) of Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) was classified as to whether the reported project was funded, the institutional affiliation of the first author, the subject of the problem treated, type of published article, and class of funding agency. The number of subsequent citations to the article was also considered, as a measure of quality or utility