The extent of influence: An alternative approach to identifying dominant contributors to a discipline's literature

Ron Johnston

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-2015-2

The extent of influence: An alternative approach to identifying dominant contributors to a discipline's literature

Ron Johnston^*

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Faculty of Science and Engineering

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Most studies of scholarly influence within disciplines using citation data do not investigate the extent of an individual's influence; does it extend over a number of years with a sequence of publications or is it confined to a short period and a small number of publications? Using bibliographic data from a series of quadrennial reports into developments in UK geography, this paper finds that few authors are cited on more than one occasion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	409-420
Number of pages	12
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume	78
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-2015-2
Publication status	Published - 2009

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