引用
传播科学
多样性(政治)
纪律
学术交流
引文分析
科学传播
社会交往
传播学
心理学
社会科学
社会学
社会心理学
计算机科学
图书馆学
政治学
出版
人类学
法学
作者
Junqing Hu,Jeffry Oktavianus,Jonathan J. H. Zhu
摘要
Abstract Communication research has been one of the fastest-growing disciplines across the social sciences over the last two decades in terms of the numbers of Social Science Citation Indexed journals and articles. However, whether Communication is an independent discipline remains debated. Of various criticisms, one extreme considers Communication too dependent on other disciplines, whereas the other regards Communication as too inward-looking. In the current study, we measure and analyze citations of articles not only among communication scholars but also between communication scholars and their counterparts from other disciplines to evaluate the performance of communication research. Our findings suggest that communication research has maintained balanced citation patterns, with a 20% self-citation rate, a 1:1 ratio between incoming and outgoing citations, and a high diversity of in- and out-citations across social science disciplines. The results may serve as useful food for thought for future evaluation of communication discipline.
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