LET THE CREDITS ROLL: A PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY MENTORS AND TRUSTED ASSESSORS IN DISCIPLINARY FORMATION
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- Published by Emerald in Journal of Documentation
- Vol. 47 (3), 227-239
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026878
Abstract
Many scholarly articles acknowledge input from colleagues, mentors and trusted assessors. This study explores the social function and cognitive significance of acknowledgements. A six category typology was developed and applied to 444 acknowledgements which were carried by research articles in JASIS (1970–1990). It is proposed that acknowledgements and citations should be used conjointly in the assessment of research performance and in disciplinary exegesis.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- The export of ideas from information scienceJournal of Information Science, 1990
- Informetric distributions, part I: Unified overviewJournal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
- Problems of citation analysis: A critical reviewJournal of the American Society for Information Science, 1989
- Profiling the professorsJournal of Information Science, 1989
- HOW WELL DO WE ACKNOWLEDGE INTELLECTUAL DEBTS?Journal of Documentation, 1987
- Citation Statistics as a Measure of Faculty Research ProductivityJournal of Education for Librarianship, 1983
- Author cocitation: A literature measure of intellectual structureJournal of the American Society for Information Science, 1981
- Quantitative Measures of Communication in Science: A Critical ReviewHistory of Science, 1979
- Content Analysis of References: Adjunct or Alternative to Citation Counting?Social Studies of Science, 1975
- Some Results on the Function and Quality of CitationsSocial Studies of Science, 1975