Influence of publication languages on the citation rate of scientific articles: A case study of East German journals

H. Czerwon; F. Havemann

doi:10.1007/bf02016792

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Influence of publication languages on the citation rate of scientific articles: A case study of East German journals

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H. Czerwon

H. Czerwon Scientific Information Centre Schiffbauerdamm 19 0-1040 Berlin (Germany) Schiffbauerdamm 19 0-1040 Berlin (Germany)

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F. Havemann

F. Havemann Scientific Information Centre Schiffbauerdamm 19 0-1040 Berlin (Germany) Schiffbauerdamm 19 0-1040 Berlin (Germany)

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Pages:: 51–63

Online Publication Date:: 13 Aug 2005

Publication Date:: 26 Jan 1993

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02016792

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Abstract

In order to quantify the influence of publication languages on the rate of citation of scientific articles, such East German journals from the Science Citation Index database were selected which publish relevant shares of contributions in several languages, especially in English and German. For a fixed period of time (1988) the selective citation impact of both English- and German-language articles was calculated. The results of our investigation reveal a non-uniform picture: In some cases English-language papers exhibit a significantly higher citations-per-paper average than German-language articles, but in a few cases German-language publications achieve a higher mean citation rate. For the half of selected journals there does not exist a statistically significant difference of citation frequencies of publications in both languages. Possible causes of these phenomena (editorial practice of journals, native countries of authors) are considered.

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