Analysis of Footnote Chasing and Citation Searching in an Academic Search Engine
Abstract
In interactive information retrieval, researchers consider the user behavior towards systems and search tasks in order to adapt search results by analyzing their past interactions. In this paper, we analyze the user behavior towards Marcia Bates' search stratagems such as 'footnote chasing' and 'citation search' in an academic search engine. We performed a preliminary analysis of their frequency and stage of use in the social sciences search engine sowiport. In addition, we explored the impact of these stratagems on the whole search process performance. We can conclude that the appearance of these two search features in real retrieval sessions lead to an improvement of the precision in terms of positive interactions with 16% when using footnote chasing and 17% for the citation search stratagem.
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@article{arxiv.1707.02494,
title = {Analysis of Footnote Chasing and Citation Searching in an Academic Search Engine},
author = {Ameni Kacem and Philipp Mayr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.02494},
year = {2017}
}
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10 pages, 2 figures, paper accepted at the Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL) workshop at SIGIR 2017. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1706.00816