Correlations between usage counts and citations in a sample of high impact documents about entrepreneurship
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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2019.jul.18Keywords:
Entrepreneurship, Bibliometrics, Usage counts, Citations, Article usage, Usage metrics, Usage data, Downloads, Web of Science, H-classic.Abstract
Metrics usage are becoming more important since the main sources of scientific information facilitate them. In this work, exposure years, citations and usage counts of the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) were collected for a sample of multidisciplinary documents with high citation rates on a specific topic: entrepreneurship. The h-classic methodology was applied to obtain a representative group of documents and the statistical relationships established between the three variables were studied. The results showed how the years of exposure imply a decrease in usage counts, but do not influence the citations received in the long term. Citations and usage counts have a clearly direct and positive correlation that allows to predict either of the two variables from the other.
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