Hu Zewen, Liu Shuo, Feng Rui, Zhang Xiaocai
Based on the Web of Science database,the citing literatures of the Chinese,American and British literatures in two different periods:1990-1994 and 2010-2014 from Library and Information Science discipline were used as samples to analyze:(1)the characteristics of the American citing literatures in two different periods,including country,institution,source journal,open source,type and language,as well as the differences among them;(2)the characteristics of citing literatures during 2010-2014 from China,the United States and the United Kingdom,as well as the differences among three countries,thus revealing the map for the distribution of citing characteristics and the scientific exchanges among three countries.This study found that:(1)the average number of articles published in the United States in 1990-2015 was 24 times that of the average number of articles published in China;(2)the major citing countries in Library and Information Science in China,the United States,and the United Kingdom were basically consistent;(3)Chinese universities such as City University of Hong Kong,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan University became the major citing institutions of the United States and the United Kingdom in new period(2010-2014);(4)The open source degree of citing literatures in library and Information Science in the United States was the highest,with a ratio of 10.73%;(5)The major types of citing literatures in library and information science in China,the United States and the United Kingdom were basically the same,all of which were papers,conference papers,reviews,monographs and editorial materials,and the proportion of papers and conference papers was above 91%.