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Master's and Doctoral Thesis Citations: Analysis and Trends of a Longitudinal Study
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Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Date
1-1-2003
Abstract
This article reports the results of a longitudinal study of over 9100 citations from 629 master’s and doctoral theses written between 1973 and 1992 at a large mid-western landgrant university. The results of this study suggest that graduate students writing theses favor current research regardless of disciplinary affiliation. The length of theses increased over time and the number of citations in thesis bibliographies varied by discipline. Implications of the results for collection development and scholarship as well as areas for future research are discussed.
Copyright Owner
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Copyright Date
2003
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Jeffrey D. Kushkowski, Kathy A. Parsons and William H. Wiese. "Master's and Doctoral Thesis Citations: Analysis and Trends of a Longitudinal Study" (2003) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_kushkowski/8/
This is a post-print of an article from portal: Libraries and the Academy, 3, no. 3 (2003): 259–276, doi: