Citation analysis study of authors of the literature used by research scholars in Zoology at the Ibadan University, Nigeria

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa;="" mso-bidi-font-style:italic"="" lang="EN-US">The study identifies 1,055 authors cited 1,376 times in the zoological theses submitted to the Ibadan University, Nigeria between 1970 and <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">1975. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">The graph of R (n) against log n conforms entirely with the linear ideal of the Bradford-Zipf bibliograph. Core authors comprise 154 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">authors who were cited at least two times each. The core authors together were cited above 35 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">per cent of all citations. P.S. Corbet, the most cited author in the theses, was cited 14 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">times. Other Bradford's parameters for authors/citations relationship are determined and discussed.</span></span></span></span></span></span>