How can we investigate citation behavior? A study of reasons for citing literature in communication

By Donald Owen Case, Georgeann M. Higgins. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000

307 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Measuring the Evolution of a Scientific Field through Citation Frames (2018, unknown): “Another potential theme is citation sentiment (Athar, 2014; Kumar, 2016), but we omit this theme from our field-scale analysis because researchers have shown that negative sentiment is rare in practice (Chubin and Moitra, 1975; Vinkler, 1998; Case and Higgins, 2000) and can be quite subjective to cl”
Scholarly communication and bibliometrics (2005, unknown): “…author of the later document (a) to be supportive or justificatory of the ideas or arguments put forward in the later document, (b) to be written by an author whose name will lend authority to the later document, (c) to meet the expectations of the later document’s audience (Case & Higgins, 2000).”
Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate (2007, unknown): “These people may then subsequently cite it for any of the usual reasons one cites a paper, such as paying homage, providing background reading, or noting corroborating or disputing claims ([15] provides a summary of research into citation behavior).”
What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior (2008, background): “In a similar study, Case and Higgins (2000) also examined motivations for citing highly-cited papers.”