Following up on yesterday's post on the WIRES Climate Change Policy and Governance topic, I'm taking a look at the same data (thirty eight articles) from a new angle: which journals, books, and other sources they cite in common.
The top ten sources cited (all of which are journals) are presented in the table below.
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| Top Ten Journals Cited in WIREs Climate Change Policy and Governance articles. |
The significance of these journals is clear in the network visualization below, with the top journals clearly visible in the center.
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| WIREs Policy and Governance articles (red) and the journals, books, and other sources that they cite (blue). |
One interesting point to note is that some journals get a large percentage of their citations from a few papers. For example, Friman and Standberg 2014, which focuses on historical responsibility for climate change, cites the journal Climatic Change nine times, almost a third of that journal's thirty two overall citations. This seems to be due to important articles on historical responsibility that have been published in Climatic Change.
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| The journal Climatic Change gets around 30% of its citations from one article (Friman and Sandberg 2014). |
To illustrate the pattern of some journals being cited more times per article, the chart below shows the top ten cited journals by both the number of WIREs articles citing them (horizontal axis) and the number of times they are cited overall (vertical axis, includes multiple cites by a single paper).
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| Number of WIREs article citing a journal (horizontal axis) versus the number of times cited overall (vertical axis), with illustrative examples. |
Finally, the data for all sources that were cited by at least two WIREs Policy and Governance articles:
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