Satisfying Information Needs of Food Science Research by Analyzing the Citation Patterns of Faculty and Graduate Students Research

Abstract

Abstract The paper provides comparative information on the citation characteristics of theses and dissertations and research faculty publications in food science over an eleven-year period. These include: the types of publications that they cite; the age of resources; the characteristics of the journals they cite (scatter of cited journals articles, zones of cited journals, overlap of cited journals, Journal Citation Report categories, and ranking of cited journals); and the publishers of cited journals. The similarities and differences between graduate students’ citation patterns (theses [Masters] and dissertations [Ph.D.]) and those of the faculty are highlighted and discussed throughout the paper.