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A significant portion of scientometrics research involves studies of relative citation rates to groups of citable items. This paper examines the relative citation rates to own-language as compared to foreign language materials. A simple probabilistic model of citation behavior is defined, which suggests a natural measure of relative citation rate. Unlike earlier indicators, our measure is independent of the size of the base population.
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Bookstein, A., Yitzhaki, M. Own-language preference: A new measure of “relative language self-citation”. Scientometrics 46, 337–348 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464782
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