چکیده:
It has seen in many studies that there is a significant relation between the number of authors in an article and its amount of perceived citations. In other words, the more the number of the authors, the more the possibility of perceiving citations. The present study thus is going to explain a kind of behavior, which is based on Citing Conformity factor. The research has been done in two parts: 1. Survey Method 2. Citation analysis method. The findings obtained from regression analysis test suggest that according to Informational Citing Conformity factor, 26% of changes in this type of behavior are predictable. It means, having a motivation for healthy thoughts and honesty and also selecting more credible source of information, the authors resort to cite the articles which were written by more authors. The results also indicated that Normative Citing Conformity is not a suitable predictor for this kind of motivation. The relationship between Citing Conformity Factors (Normative, Informational) and the motivation to cite multi author articles has been analyzed in this research for the first time.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Informational Citing Conformity: A Motivation for Citation to Multi-Author Articles Saeideh Ebrahimy Assistant Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Shiraz University sebrahimi.
The relationship between Citing Conformity Factors (Normative, Informational) and the motivation to cite multi author articles has been analyzed in this research for the first time.
If in the process of generating scientific information, a researcher cites informational resources in order to gain rewards or avoid the punishment, Normative Citing Conformity has occurred, while if he/she selects people and social groups for his/her decision-making with the aim of choosing a true informational resource for the citation, it is an Informational Citing Conformity (Osareh, Farajpahlou, Shahni & Ebrahimy, 2012).
This type of conformity is the least constant level of social influence and has the least effect on people's permanent behavior since the author, just for gaining rewards or avoiding punishments, cites a source that s/he does not believe it is necessary to be cited in her/his research article.
Doing a study for determining the predictors of an article's citing effects, Haslam (2008) investigated the factors related to social psychology in the following four categories: the author's characteristics, institutional factors, the article's organizing features and research approaches.
The research findings suggested that 26oZ» of the Variance of authors' citations to multi-author articles are explained under the influence of Informational Citing Conformity.
Citation to multi-author articles based on Informational Citing Conformity is explainable in this framework.