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Li, S.S., Luan, S.J. andHo, Y.S. (2008), Bibliometric research on public goods in the period of 1992 to 2006. Proceedings of the 2nd Euro-Asia Conference on Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility: Technological Innovation and Management Section, 102-112.

Documenttype:Proceedings Paper / Language:English / Citedreferences:17 / Timescited:0 / Timesselfcited:0

Abstract: The concept of "Public Goods" was firstly presented 250 years ago. However, few people use the bibliometric analysis technique to study public goods. In this paper, the authors make a bibliometric analysis of all public goods-related publications in the period of 1992 to 2006. The selected documents to be studies are with "public goods, public good" in the title, abstract, or keywords. Analyzed parameters includes authorship, patterns of international collaboration, journal, languages, document type, research address, number of times cited, and reprint authors' address. Researches on Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Citations per Publications (CPP) show that 45% of the papers on public goods are composed by a single author. The USA, the UK, the Germany and Canada contributed to 59% of the total papers, while USA contributed 44% of the total independent publications. In addition, English remains the dominant language. 98% papers are in English, while only 1.5% of the papers were written in German and French, and the remaining 0.5% was written in other 7 languages. Moreover, 9.8% of the papers were cited more than 10 times in five years after the publication and 40% of the papers were not cited. In addition, a model was applied to describe the relationship between the numbers of citations and the lifecycle of the papers.

Author Keywords: Public Goods; Citation Per Publication; Bibliometric Research

Addresses:

Peking Univ, Key Lab Environm & Urban Sci, Shenzhen Grad Sch, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China