Selecting livestock periodicals through citation analysis technique

摘要

This paper describes a study using the citation analysis technique to select journals that would be used in the livestock industry. The study determines the principal journals to which a livestock library should subscribe, thus obtaining the highest possible utility of materials.By using a data base of 114 journals for a period of four years (1980–1983), citation data were applied on the Bradford bibliograph and Bradford-Zipf distribution to determine the ranking of journals in the industry and the “core journals.”It was discovered that the Journal of Animal Science is the most cited journal, with 889 citations, and the core journals were 18 in number, having 11,070 citations representing 32.3% of the total citations.