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               Citing behavior of Chinese books based on citation

               content    〇a ①


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               ZHANG Chengzhi , LI Zhuo, ZHAO Mengyuan, LIU Jiahao & ZHOU Qingqing
               Department of Information Management, School of Economics & Management, Nanjing University of Science and
               Technology, Nanjing 210094, China



               ABSTRACT
               The purpose is to analyze the citing behaviors over books from the perspective of citation content, and
               to overcome the traditional deficiencies of book impact evaluation based on citation frequencies and
               book reviews, so as to improve the accuracy and scientificity of book impact evaluation. We collected
               Chinese books from five disciplines including: computer science, law, medicine, literature and sport
               science from Amazon.cn. Then we extracted citation contents about these Chinese books from each
               citing literature manually and built a corpus with 2,288 citation contents. Finally, we analyzed citation
               behaviors over these Chinese books by mining citation locations, citation intensities, citation lengths
               and citation sentiments. The experimental results showed that: 1) when citing Chinese books, authors
               from five disciplines had different preferences on citation locations; 2) citation intensities mainly
               ranged from 1 to 3. In addition, citations in literature had more high citation intensities; 3) the citation
               lengths were concentrated between 20 and 160; 4) regarding citation sentiments of Chinese books,
               more than 80% citations were neutral. Compared with negative citations, there were more positive
               ones.

               Keywords
               Citation behavior of Chinese books, Citation content, Discipline difference, Book impact assessment




               0  Introduction


               Books are the carriers for humans to express opinions, preserve information, and disseminate
               knowledge. They are also important resources for academic research. How to quickly select high-
               impact works from massive books with various qualities is an important topic faced by book
               publishers, libraries, academia and scientific research management departments.
                 Traditional book evaluation methods mostly rely on single data sources, such as citation
               frequencies, library holdings or book reviews. For example, Su (2009) selected the highest impact
               books according to the principle that “80% of academic impacts in the academic community are
               reflected through 20% of books’ citations”. White et al. (2009) evaluated impacts of books by
               library holdings. Zuccala, van Someren, and van Bellen (2014) used books’ expert reviews to

               ① This article is an outcome of the key project “Research on Discipline Construction of Information Science and Future
               Development Path of Information Work” (No.17ZDA291) supported by National Social Science Foundation of China.
               * Correspondence should be addressed to ZHANG Chengzhi, Email: zhangcz@njust.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0001-8121-4796
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