Price Index (Citation Recency)
The Price Index measures how strongly a field draws on recent literature by computing the percentage of its references that point to work published within the last few years. Derek de Solla Price, the founder of modern scientometrics, observed that the sciences differ sharply in how immediate their referencing is: hard sciences cite a tight cloud of recent papers at the research front, while humanities scholarship cites a long, even spread of older works. In his 1965 Science paper on the networks of scientific papers he documented this concentration of references on recent years, and in his 1970 essay distinguishing hard science, soft science, technology, and nonscience he formalized the index that now bears his name. Defined as the share of references no older than about five years, the Price Index is a citing-side companion to obsolescence measures: where the cited half-life looks at how the literature ages, the Price Index looks at how recency-focused the citing behavior is.
Bronrecord
Citaten letterlijk overgenomen uit het bronrecord van de methode. Hieruit wordt geen verificatie op claimniveau afgeleid.
- Price, D. J. de Solla (1965). Networks of scientific papers. Science, 149(3683), 510-515. · DOI 10.1126/science.149.3683.510
- Price, D. J. de Solla (1970). Citation measures of hard science, soft science, technology, and nonscience. In C. E. Nelson & D. K. Pollock (Eds.), Communication among Scientists and Engineers (pp. 3-22). Lexington, MA: Heath Lexington Books. · ISBN 9780669207095
Gecureerde claims
Claims opgeslagen in het bewijsregister, elk met zijn eigen beoordeling.
Deze weergave verzint geen claimbeoordeling als het register er geen heeft.
Gerelateerde methoden
Gegenereerd uit de methodegraaf en getoond als machinaal voorgestelde relaties — er wordt geen bewijsclaim afgeleid.