TY - JOUR AU - AB - Serials - Vo19, m.2, July 1996 Charles whim Do citations count? Do CITATIONS COUNT? CITATION INDEXING AND THE RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE (RAE) Charles Oppenheim Paper presented at the 19th UKSG Annual Conference, Keele, April 1996 Citations are used to illustrate or Introduction elaborate on a point, or to I take it as read that you all know, and love, the Research criticise. Citation studies, based Assessment Exercise, if only because those of you who work in on ISl's Citation Indexes, cun HEIs will have been chasing up the ISSN for the Outer Mongolian help evuluate scientific research, Journal of Irrelevant Results in which your academics have while imp& factors aid l&raries published. So the bulk of this paper will be concerned with in deciding which joumls to citations, citation indexes and citation counting. cancel or purchase. This paper A atation is, of course, a reference to some previously published suggests that citation counts cun work that is relevant to the argument the author wants to make. replace the costly RAE in The author may be critiasing the earlier item, may be building on assessing the research output of it, may be using it to enhance his argument, or may TI - Do Citations Count? Citation Indexing and the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) JF - Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community DO - 10.1629/09155 DA - 1996-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/do-citations-count-citation-indexing-and-the-research-assessment-2rpmLn3Up7 DP - DeepDyve ER -