id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15946 Tang, Rong Citation Characteristics and Intellectual Acceptance of Scholarly Monographs 2008-07-01 14 .pdf application/pdf 7492 346 47 In studying a bibliography of Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK), Hicks and Po er discovered that, on average, a book received 5.7 citations, while a journal received only 1.2.20 Cle- mens, Powell, McIlwaine, and Okamoto compared citations to sociology journals and books and found that book citations outperformed journal citations by a ratio of 3:1.21 The average publication year (p=.24) and citation year (p=.63) of each discipline are not significantly different from one an- other. cache/crl-15946.pdf txt/crl-15946.txt