PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(VIII)/ /23

AUTHOR : Netai Mandal

TITLE: AN APPROACH TOWARDS CITATION TRACKING: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES

ABSTRACT:Citation tracking indicates the direction that any discipline or research area is taking, bringing out new areas for investigation and also identify research trends and response of the research community to published research articles. Citation tracking explore academic research activity evaluation, that can be used as a decision support tool by the university knowledge management system for planning future research activities.This paper presents the definition of citation tracking and why tracking citation and importance of citation tracking and also describe that the laws of citation tracking and this paper also describe the methods and platforms be used for citation tracking.

KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics, Lotka’s law, Bradford’s law, Zipf’s law, GoogleScholar, Web of Science

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