Citation Profile

Overview

Citation profile is where citations to your works are collected.

Citations are extracted from the full texts by the CitEc service.  It is the same project which supplies citations data to the IDEAS and EconPapers services.

We automatically add citations to your profile when they match one of your work titles with a high degree of confidence.  Those with a moderate degree of confidence are not added automatically.  Instead we let you see them and decide on them.  And you have the opportunity to remove those that were added errorneously by the service.

Citations added to your profile are called identified because they are added as pointing to a particular document of yours.

Citations that we offer you to look at (with a moderate degree of matching confidence) are called potential. As you accept a potential citation, it becomes identified. If you do not accept a potential citation, it becomes old.  Old potential citations are only suggested again if you explicitly choose to see them.

Citations that you refuse (by clicking the not my work button) would not be suggested to any of your works in the future.  Use it to exclude errorneously suggested items.

Citations listed on other websites

The changes you do in your citation profile would be propagated back to CitEc and from there to the other RePEc services.  It takes time for the different RePEc services to synchronize their citations data.  Due to current technical limitations, this process may take up to a full month or a bit more.

Monthly mailing

In your monthly mailing from Christian Zimmermann, you would still see a list of recently identified citations.  Use the citation profile in RAS to correct misidentified items, if any.

Coverage

Only items in the RePEc dataset are processed for citations.

Questions and Answers

Q: Citations and references I see on the IDEAS page for my paper do not match the ones that I see in RAS. Some are present in RAS, but missing on IDEAS and some are vice versa.  Why?

A: It is a known problem, but it is due to the lag in data synchronization between the services.  Eventually every identified citation would be seen in both services. Rarely this may happen due to differences in data treatment algorithms and temporary database issues between services.

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