Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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515103 | Information Processing & Management | 2011 | 8 Pages |
This paper analyzes the bibliographic references made by all papers published by ACM in 2006. Both an automatic classification of all references and a human classification of a random sample of them resulted that around 40% of the references are to conference proceedings papers, around 30% are to journal papers, and around 8% are to books. Among the other types of documents, standards and RFC correspond to 3% of the references, technical and other reports correspond to 4%, and other Web references to 3%. Among the documents cited at least 10 times by the 2006 ACM papers, 41% are conferences papers, 37% are books, and 16% are journal papers.
Research highlights► Conferences amounts to around 40% of the references in the CS papers. ► Journal papers amounts to 30% of the references. ► 41% of the papers cited more than 10 times are from conferences. ► 37% of the documents cited more than 10 times are books.