Update on JAAVSO Citations

Volume 52 number 2 (2024)

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Nancy D. Morrison

Department of Physics and Astronomy and Ritter Observatory, MS 113, The University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft Street, Toledo OH 43606; jaavso.editor@aavso.org

Abstract

Citations of previous work are a crucial part of scientific research. When an article is cited by authors in the scientific community, the aggregation of those references is a measure of the importance of the article, of the author(s) of the article, and of the journal in which the article appears.