The Differences Among Disciplines in Scholarly Communication

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to express the differences andsimilarities of inter-disciplinary scholarly communicationsthrough the citation analysis of theses. For this purpose, a totalof 29,289 citations from 391 theses between years 1968 –2007 wereinvestigated using citation analysis. Samples were chosen accord-ing to layer-sampling techniques from 16 disciplines of four basic subject areas (social sciences, pure science, engineering, and artsand humanities). It has been found out that the characteristics ofcitations of the theses differ among academic disciplines. Thestudy finds that literature obsolescence, language of resources,journal or monograph use, number of citations and authors arerelated to the disciplines and vary according to the subject areas.