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Influential Publications in Ecological Economics: A Citation Analysis

Influential Publications in Ecological Economics: A Citation Analysis. R. Costanza, D. Stern, B. Fisher, L. He, C. Ma Review by Gary Lynne. 1. Introduction. On “most important”, “most influential”, one could survey researchers and ask them

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Influential Publications in Ecological Economics: A Citation Analysis

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  1. Influential Publications in Ecological Economics: A Citation Analysis R. Costanza, D. Stern, B. Fisher, L. He, C. Ma Review by Gary Lynne

  2. 1. Introduction • On “most important”, “most influential”, one could survey researchers and ask them • Citation analysis may be best indicator, albeit has problems: • Citation analysis does not reflect nonacademic influence • Quantity is not same as quality; some main ideas may lie dormant for many years, “uncited” • Several different citations data bases, e.g. Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), with each having only its subset of journals; also, biased toward English-language journals • Citations only start to appear a few years after the paper is first published

  3. 2. Methods • How select the publications to analyze? • Editorial Board of Ecol Econ nominated 92 papers • Included all Ecol Econ papers that had received 15 or more ISI citations • Papers most cited in Ecol Econ published papers; limited the list to those receiving 15 or more citations • Also went after monographs or books that had been cited 15 or more times in the period 1994-2003

  4. 2.1. Citation Analysis • ISI Web of Knowledge searches: • Science Citation Index Expanded • Social Science Citation Index • Arts and Humanities Citation Index • Overall, account for 8500 journals and over 23 million articles! • Performed between July 10-20, 2003 • Claims that ISI “includes citations in journals published from 1945 (1955 for social sciences) to the present”

  5. 3. Results • Develops five large tables • Perhaps most intriguing is the citations by authors publishing in the Ecological Economics journal • Notes how need to focus on the increasing rate of citation of a particular paper, suggesting same are more “foundational” than others • Striking how the most cited papers are in more readable journals like Nature and Science

  6. 4. Patterns of citation over time • Several new books gaining ever more attention • Upward trend in citations for a particular paper, book chapter, etc. indicates it is “foundational”

  7. 5. Discussion and conclusions • Suggests starting with the list of papers in the reference list of papers published in the EE journal is likely the best way to proceed • Books are having more influence in EE right now than are the journals; likely because it is a new field of inquiry • Look at increasing time trend of citation over time… scope of influence is increasing… as the indicator fo “foundational” material

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