We are performing a citation analysis of scholarly articles published in two Canadian public policy and public administration journals across five, one-year periods: 1994, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019.

Our main focus has been differentiating between citations to government sources and those to traditional academic literature and grey literature. Within the government sources we have differentiated between Canadian federal, non-federal and international sources, documents and records, and online and print formats.

We have finished coding the citations for 2004, 2014, and 2019 and have an initial analysis of the frequency of those citations over time.

In this presentation we will discuss our research questions, developing our code book, the coding and conflict resolution process, how our approach and preliminary results compare to other citation analyses, and potential outcomes of this project.