Citation personal display: A case study of personal websites by physicists in 11 well-known universities
Xingchen Li, Qiang Wu, Nan Zhang

TL;DR
This study examines how physicists from top universities in the US, UK, and China display citation metrics on personal websites, revealing low overall display rates and significant differences across institutions, countries, and ranks.
Contribution
It provides a comparative analysis of citation personal display practices among physicists across different universities, countries, and academic ranks.
Findings
14.8% of physicists display citation information
Chinese physicists have the highest citation display rate
Professors are more likely to display citation data
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the extent to which researchers display citation, and wants to examine whether there are researcher differences in citation personal display at the level of university, country, and academic rank. Physicists in 11 well-known universities in USA, Britain, and China were chosen as the object of study. It was manually identified if physicists had mentioned citation counts, citation-based indices, or a link to Google Scholar Citations (GSC) on the personal websites. A chi-square test is constructed to test researcher differences in citation personal display. Results showed that the overall proportion of citation personal display is not high (14.8%), with 129 of 870 physicists displaying citation. And physicists from different well-known universities indeed had a significant difference in citation personal display. Moreover, at the national level, it was…
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Taxonomy
Topicsscientometrics and bibliometrics research · Web visibility and informetrics · Information Architecture and Usability
