Abstract
Citing literature is a very important activity for scholars in writing articles. Many publishers and libraries build cita tion databases and provide citation reports on scholarly journals. Cited-by linking is a service representing what an article cites and how many times it cites a specific article within a journal database. Recently, information services based on DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) have been increasing in number. CrossRef, a non-profit organiza tion for the DOI registration agency, maintains the DOI system and provides the cited-by linking service. Recently, the number of Korean journals adopting DOI is also rapidly increasing. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) supports Korean learned societies in DOI related activities in collaboration with CrossRef. This study analyzes cited patterns of Korean DOI journal articles using CrossRef’s cited-by linking data and a Korean journal citation database. This analysis has been performed in terms of publication country and the language of journals citing Korean journal articles. The results show that DOI, SCI(E) (Science Citation Index (Expanded)), and English journals are more likely to be cited internationally.
Highlights
Many publishers and libraries build citation databases and provide citation analysis reports on scholarly journals
Another possibility is that foreign authors can find Korean journal articles in the references of articles published in journals which are published in their own countries or are indexed on journal databases they use
It shows that 44% (14,159) of the total citations came from Korean journal articles while the rest, 56% (17,852), came from foreign journal articles
Summary
Many publishers and libraries build citation databases and provide citation analysis reports on scholarly journals. Many Korean journals are hardly known to foreign researchers and even to Koreans These journals face difficulties in being cited except for citations by authors who are acquainted with Korean journals and can understand articles written in Korean. According to Liu’s categorization, most Korean journals have weak points in physical and cognitive accessibilities; Korean journal articles are rarely read by foreign researchers because most of them are not included in famous journal indexes or databases and are published in Korean. This is so even when the quality or significance of the articles is high level
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