| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會教育學系 === 94 === As internet has become an important communication medium, more and more authors use web citation. Through analyzing the content of web citation in academic journals, we can learn more about the impact of internet resources and how a scholar uses such resources. This study is to analyze the content of web citation in 1,201 articles of 29 academic journals listed in TSSCI database, which were all published in either 2004 or 2005, and which can be categorized into 10 fields. Citation analysis and interview are the methods the author conducted.
The research findings are: 1. About the growth of web citation: i. The proportion of web citation in articles listed in TSSCI is only 2.43%, which implies that the internet has not become the main citation source for scholars in social sciences yet. ii. The proportion of web citation in 2005 outgrows that in 2004 for 64.73%, which indicates that the frequency of using web citation has been speedily enlarged. 2. About the characteristics of web citation: i. Most of the cited articles in web citation are written in English and are posted in American websites. ii. Most of the cited articles in web citation were posted during the past 5 years. iii. Works by institutional organizations (57.87%) are more often cited than works by individual author (42.13%). iv. Most of the source domains are from organizations and government institutions. v. The file formats and data types of web citation are most in HTML and webpage formats. 3. As for the subject dispersion, the phenomenon of self-discipline citation and technology integration is quite obvious.4.The re-accessible rate of web citation is 51.82%, which indicates that half of the sources in web citation can not be linked. 5. About the social sciences scholars’ opinions on web citation: i. Most of the interviewees agree that internet offers a gateway for them to find gray literature. ii. Google and Google Scholar have become the main medium for them to search out the academic information. iii. The exclusiveness is the main reason why they use internet resources. iv. Whether the internet resources are cited or not usually depends on whether their subjects meet the researchers’ needs or not. v. Not assuring themselves of the accuracy of cited information sometimes becomes a problem for the interviewees. vi. The interviewees agree that there are some advantages in internet resources, such as their easy availability…etc. 6. The characteristics of a discipline will influence its scholars’ usage of web citation, and two researchers’ web citation will be dissimilar if their research subjects are different even though they belong to the same discipline.
According to the research findings, the researcher has offered some suggestion: 1. The suppliers of web information should offer detailed bibliographies and the citing authors should check its accuracy before they cite the information. 2. To combine HTML or CFM and the messages which can help users to judge the quality and relevance of the information should be considered when making the internet related standards. 3. Although different types of internet resources have been included in some citation formats, the format of web citation should be constantly updated and made known to more authors. 4. Academic institutions should build and maintain a more authoritative subject gateway. 5. Every preservation institution should build a system to record those related internet resources permanently. 6. Libraries should recommend and collect some academic internet resources and link them to their WEBPAC systems.
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