Predicting Long-Term Citation Impact of Articles in Social and Personality Psychology
- 1 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 106 (3), 891-900
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.106.3.891-900
Abstract
The citation impact of a comprehensive sample of articles published in social and personality psychology journals in 1998 was evaluated. Potential predictors of the 10-yr. citation impact of 1,580 articles from 37 journals were investigated, including number of authors, number of references, journal impact factor, author nationality, and article length, using linear regression. The impact factor of the journal in which articles appeared was the primary predictor of the citations that they accrued, accounting for 30% of the total variance. Articles with greater length, more references, and more authors were cited relatively often, although the citation advantage of longer articles was not proportionate to their length. A citation advantage was also enjoyed by authors from the United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom. 37% of the variance in the total number of citations was accounted for by the study variables.Keywords
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