id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14068 Broadus, Robert N. On Citations, Uses, and Informed Guesswork: A Response to Line 1985-01-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 938 44 68 There are Robert N. Broadus is professor in the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 . Line's chain of thought seems to be: (1) journal ranks by use are unstable; (2) ranks by citation counts are stable; (3) therefore, citations do not reflect actual use; and (4) therefore, since both use and citation studies are very imperfect predic- tors of local needs or wants, we may as well have the users say what they want and let them take the consequences. cache/crl-14068.pdf txt/crl-14068.txt