Citing vs Cited Half-Life Asymmetry
A journal has two half-lives, and comparing them reveals its temporal personality. The cited half-life measures the median age of the articles the journal is cited for, capturing how long its own work stays useful. The citing half-life measures the median age of the references the journal's articles make, capturing how far back its authors reach. Burton and Kebler's 1960 half-life framework supplies the median-age machinery for both, and Ronald Rousseau's work on the temporal structure of journal citations underscores that incoming and outgoing citation streams age differently. When the two half-lives diverge, the asymmetry is informative: a journal whose work is cited for many years but which itself cites only recent literature sits at a fast research front yet produces durable results, while the reverse profile marks a synthesizing or archival journal. The asymmetry is the gap between how a journal is used and how it uses the literature.
पूरी विधि पढ़ें
यह खंड पढ़ने के लिए निःशुल्क खाते से साइन इन करें।
पद्धति मानचित्र
सम्बन्धित पद्धतियों का परिवेश — अन्वेषण हेतु किसी नोड का चयन करें।
स्रोत
- Burton, R. E., & Kebler, R. W. (1960). The "half-life" of some scientific and technical literatures. American Documentation, 11(1), 18-22. DOI: 10.1002/asi.5090110105 ↗
- Rousseau, R. (1999). Temporal differences in self-citation rates of scientific journals. Scientometrics, 44(3), 521-531. DOI: 10.1007/BF02458493 ↗
इस पृष्ठ का उद्धरण कैसे दें
ScholarGate. (2026, June 23). Citing vs Cited Half-Life Asymmetry (Synchronous and Diachronous Aging). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/hi/bibliometrics/citing-cited-half-life-asymmetry
कौन-सी पद्धति?
इस पद्धति को उसकी निकटतम सजातीय पद्धतियों के साथ रखकर उन्हें साथ-साथ पढ़ें — पुस्तकालय पुस्तकें मेज़ पर रख देता है; चुनाव आपका है।
- Citation Half-Life and Literature Obsolescenceग्रंथमिति↔ तुलना करें
- Immediacy Indexग्रंथमिति↔ तुलना करें
- Price Index (Citation Recency)ग्रंथमिति↔ तुलना करें