From the History of Scientometric Citation Classifications. The First Two Works and Russophone Publications. Part 3

The apparent diversity of citation motivations and the idea of possible differences in citation functions led to the first attempts at scientometric classifications of citations as early as in the 1960s (i.e. at the dawn of the appearance of a toolkit called the Science Citation Index). These classifications were developed based on the assumption that their application would make it possible to obtain more accurate data on both characteristics of cited documents and the very nature of scientific citation. They were also supposed to help refine information retrieval. The creation of such classifications is considered here in the context of the need for a correct understanding of the reflection of the properties of scientific documents by their citedness. In this work, the Russian-language articles on this topic published since 1976 and onwards are analyzed.

scientometric citation classifications, citation motivation, citation functions, cause for citation, scientific document use, scientific document value, scientific document quality, “impact”