Web references in graduate papers at the Department of Information Sciences at the Faculty

of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

Anina Bauer, Marija Kirin and Marija Turković

Department of Information SciencesFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb

Ivana Lučića 3, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

Zagreb, 2011.

Introduction

how graduate students tend to collect their references online? dr. sc. Đilda Pečarić - researched the Development of Information

Sciences in Croatia The primary goal - to find out the amount of web references students

use in their graduate papers

how many web references have an author ?which author is most frequently cited?what type of web references students mostly refer?

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Hypothesis

substantial growth in the usage of web references in graduate papers

students refer not only to scientific articles, but also to other types of web references

articles are more frequent than monographs

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Methods

November 2010.

Library catalogue of the Faculty Library - comprised of 587 papers

Digital Repository

analyzed period - 2003 to 2010.

Analyzed fields Archive Documentation Library Science General Information Science Museology

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Results

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The results

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references web references

AVG per paper 18 5

MAX per paper 70 57

MIN per paper 3 0

total 6525 1947

The results according to the field (1)

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fieldanalysed papers

analysed references

average number of references

analysed web

references

average number of

web references

Archive Documentatio

n7 132 18,86 8 1,14

Library Science

268 5048 18,84 1345 5,02

General Information

Science72 993 13,79 488 6,78

Museology 15 352 23,47 106 7,07

total 362 6525 - 1947 -

The results according to the field (2)

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Paper from fieldPaper with most

referencesPaper with most web references

Archive Documentation

44 7

Library Science 70 45

General Information Science

66 57

Museology 44 29

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yearanalysed papers

analysed references

average number of references

analysed web

references

average number of

web references

2003 4 88 22,00 37 9,25

2004 71 1104 15,55 264 3,72

2005 45 794 17,64 175 3,89

2006 69 1089 15,78 276 4,00

2007 63 1137 18,05 346 5,49

2008 78 1605 20,58 525 6,73

2009 27 586 21,70 276 10,22

2010 5 122 24,40 48 9,60

The number of references in the papers from 2003 to 2010.

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Types of references

Web pagesReference materialsArticlesOnline booksDifferent types of manifests, guidelines, published lectures and alike

Most referred

1. Wikipedia 5,24%

2. Narodne novine (The Official Gazette) 3,44%

Authors

most commonly cited author doc. dr. sc. Sonja Špiranec -10 references

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Conclusion

Main hypothesis - PROVEN the number of web references in the graduate papers of students of information

sciences at the Faculty increased over the given period - from 2003 to 2010

Second hypothesis (scientific journals are referred more than monographs ) - not accurate

unforeseen results Wikipedia articles were referred the most alarming frequency of incorrect citations

possible prediction the usage of web references by (graduate) students will continue to grow

research can easily be continued