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evaluate the impacts of monographs.
With the increasing convenience of full text data acquisition of academic papers, scientometric
research based on full-texts has attracted interest of many researchers, especially interdisciplinary
research in the fields of scientometrics, natural language processing, machine learning, and
information retrieval. Academia has carried out a series of explorations and applications in the
fields of full-text citation analysis, automatic review and entity topic extraction. Y. Ding et al. (2014)
statistically analyzed the different citation locations of 866 academic articles in the Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology. They divided the citation locations
into six parts: Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Result, Conclusion and
Future Work. They calculated citation frequencies with two different ways by considering the
phenomenon of multiple references. Hu (2014) revealed some phenomena and characteristics
of citation behaviors with empirical analysis from the three aspects, including specific citation
location, citation frequency, and citation content in the body of citing literatures. Currently, most
citation content analysis is based on citation frequency, citation location or citation sentiment.
Citation content can be used to identify authors’ citation attitudes and mine citing behaviors, so as
to further improve accuracy and scientificity of book impact evaluation. However, few existing
book evaluation research considered the influences of citation content information. In addition,
most of relevant research on citation content takes English literatures as research objects, and there
is still a lack of research on Chinese literatures, especially Chinese books.
Therefore, this paper takes the literatures citing Chinese books (abbreviated as citing
literatures) as the research object and analyzes citing behaviors based on citation content
(include the sentence with the citation mark and former two sentences before it and the latter
two sentences after it). Firstly, we selected five disciplines, including computer science, law,
medicine, literature and sport science, and collected 399 Chinese books from Amazon.cn.
Then, we collected full-text data of literatures that cited these books manually and extracted
corresponding citation contents. 2,288 citation contents were obtained in total. Finally, we
analyzed citation behavior characteristics from four aspects, including citation locations, citation
intensities, citation lengths and citation sentiments, so as to provide a basis for subsequent book
evaluation methods.

1 Related work

Citation content information includes citation location, citation frequency, length of citation
content, author’s citation attitude in citing literatures, which can be used for evaluating and
analyzing books. This paper summarizes relevant research work about citation content information
from aspects of citation locations, citation intensities, citation lengths and authors’ citation
sentiments.