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Life in Print: Citation of Articles Published in Volumes 1–10 of the Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

John C. Courtney ,
Karman B. Kawchuk  and
Duff Spafford
John C. Courtney
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan
Karman B. Kawchuk
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario
Duff Spafford
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan
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Abstract

The Social Sciences Citation Index was canvassed for citations of all articles, notes, review articles, comments and replies published in volumes 1–10 of the Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique. The data show that nearly three-quarters of the 335 items published between 1968 and 1977 were cited at least once, with a greater likelihood of the citation appearing in non-Canadian than in Canadian publications. English-language items were cited four times as frequently as French-language ones, on the average, and those with at least some Canadian content were cited nearly twice as frequently, on the average, as those with no Canadian content.

Résumé

On a examiné dans le Social Sciences Citation Index tous les articles, notes, synthèses bibliographiques et commentaires publiés dans les volumes 1–10 de la Revue canadienne de science politique/Canadian Journal of Political Science. Les chiffres montrent que près des trois-quarts des 335 textes publiés entre 1968 et 1977 ont été cités au moins une fois, avec une plus grande probabilité d'apparition de ces citations dans des publications non canadiennes plutôt que canadiennes. En moyenne, les textes en anglais ont été cités quatre fois plus fréquemment que les textes en français. Les textes ayant un quelconque rapport avec le Canada avaient deux fois plus de chances d'être cités en moyenne que ceux qui n'avaient aucun rapport avec le Canada.

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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 625 - 638
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1987

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References

1 Social Sciences Citation Index: An International Multidisciplinary Index to the Literature of the Social, Behavioral and Related Sciences, 1966–1970 Five Year Cumulation (Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1979); 1971–1975 Five Year Cumulation (Philadelphia: ISI, 1979); 1976–1980 Five Year Cumulation (Philadelphia: ISI, 1983); 1981 Annual (Philadelphia: ISI, 1982); 1982 Annual (Philadelphia: ISI, 1983); 1983 Annual (Philadelphia: ISI, 1984); and 1984 Annual (Philadelphia: ISI, 1985). The Social Sciences Citation Index is the source for all data included in Tables 3 to 10 of this article. For an earlier comparative study of citations including those of Canadian political science see J. A. Laponce, “Political Science: An Import-Export Analysis of Journals and Footnotes,” Political Studies 28 (1980), 401–19.Google Scholar For a recent study ranking American and Canadian political science graduate departments by citation frequency, see Hans Dieter Klingemann, “Ranking the Graduate Departments in the 1980s: Toward Objective Qualitative Indicators,” PS 19 (1986), 651–61.

2 SSCI, 1976–1980 Five Year Cumulation, Guide and List of Source Publications (1983). It should be kept in mind that the citations in our sample are citations appearing in serial publications and collected volumes only. Much scholarly communication in political science is carried on through the publication of books, and no doubt there are many dozens of citations of items in our sample which, because they appear in books, fall through the net we deploy here. The 114 political science journals indexed by the SSCI compares with the 657 periodicals of all sorts abstracted by International Political Science Abstracts in 1976. Of those 657, the IPSA “covered in full” 44 leading political science journals.

3 Line, Maurice B., “The Influence of the Type of Sources on the Results of Citation Analysis,” Journal of Documentation 35 (1979), 270.CrossRefGoogle Scholar See also SSCI, 1984 Annual, Guide and List of Source Publications (1980), 27.

4 The university affiliation of JOURNAL authors for the volumes published between 1978and 1985 is as follows (top 10 universities):

5 See Laponce, “Political Science,” and Laponce, “Political Science and Political Geography: Neglected Areas, Areas for Development,” International Social Science Journal 35 (1983), 549–58.Google Scholar It should be noted that Canadian Public Policy did not begin publication until 1975, which was part way through our survey period.

6 The presidential address was Cairns's “Governments and Societies of Canadian Federalism” and the pieces in the Reprint Series were those by Lijphart, Truman and Cairns (“Electoral Systems”).

7 See L'avenir dufrancais dans les publications et les communications scientifiques et techniques, vols. 1–3 (Québec: Éditeur officiel du Québec, 1983)Google Scholar, and Drapeau, Arnold J., La langue d'usage dans les communications et les publications des chercheurs d'institutions francophones du Québec (Québec: Conseil de la langue francaise, 1985).Google Scholar We are indebted to Professor Jean Crête, Department of Political Science, Laval University, for providing us with this information.

8 An example of such proposals is to be found in the “Park Report”: Paul Park (chairman), Aid to Scholarly Communication (Ottawa: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1982), 25 pp.Google Scholar