Sampling issues in bibliometric analysis

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Highlights：

• Bibliometricians face several issues when drawing and analyzing samples of citation records for their studies.

• We demonstrate how power analyses can be used to determine in advance how large the sample needs to be to achieve the citation study's goals.

• We show how power analyses can be used to develop reasonable expectations as to what the citation study can accomplish.

• We show that inferential statistics and significance tests should still be used even when all citation records are available (and not only a sample).

摘要

•Bibliometricians face several issues when drawing and analyzing samples of citation records for their studies.•We demonstrate how power analyses can be used to determine in advance how large the sample needs to be to achieve the citation study's goals.•We show how power analyses can be used to develop reasonable expectations as to what the citation study can accomplish.•We show that inferential statistics and significance tests should still be used even when all citation records are available (and not only a sample).

论文关键词：Bibliometrics,Sampling,Population,Power analysis,Percentiles

论文评审过程：Received 9 January 2014, Revised 16 November 2015, Accepted 16 November 2015, Available online 28 September 2016, Version of Record 5 December 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2015.11.004