Do special issues offer something special? An overview of research trends in Telecommunications Policy special issues
- Authors
- Lee, So-Eun; Kim, Seongcheol; Lim, Chulmin
- Issue Date
- 11월-2019
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Keywords
- Telecommunications policy; Special issue; Literature analysis; Topic modeling; Negative binomial regression
- Citation
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY, v.43, no.10
- Indexed
- SCIE
SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY
- Volume
- 43
- Number
- 10
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/61971
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101884
- ISSN
- 0308-5961
- Abstract
- This study explores the value of special issues by analyzing the characteristics of special issues of Telecommunications Policy (TP). Specifically, this study examines the status of special issue publications, the characteristics of their articles compared with those of general issues, and the factors affecting article citations. For the analysis, all information on TP articles published from 1976 to 2018 was collected from the Scopus database. A comparative analysis as well as a negative binomial regression were conducted on papers published after 1994, when the first special issue was published. The results show that special issues are distinguished from general issues by various characteristics, such as multinational author collaboration, number of references, keywords, and funding. While general issue papers are more frequently cited in academia, special issue papers show better performance in terms of online captures and social media sharing. Moreover, the smaller number of variables affects the frequency of citations in the case of special issues, revealing that content and format are more influential than author factors.
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