Mapping intellectual structure of a scientific subfield through author cocitations

Mapping intellectual structure of a scientific subfield through author cocitations

Discusses the intellectual structure of the sciences and describes a study that was conducted to test the usefulness of author cocitation analysis for empirically deriving groupings of intellectual leaders in the field of sociology. Results are contrasted with traditional subjective methods of codif...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Society for Information Science 1990-09, Vol.41 (6), p.444-452
Hauptverfasser: Bayer, Alan E., Smart, John C., McLaughlin, Gerald W.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Authors
Citation Analysis
Cluster Grouping
Codification
Correlation
Empirical Methods
Information Retrieval
Mapping
Multidimensional Scaling
Sciences
Sociology
Structure of Knowledge
Subject Specialists
Validity
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Zusammenfassung:Discusses the intellectual structure of the sciences and describes a study that was conducted to test the usefulness of author cocitation analysis for empirically deriving groupings of intellectual leaders in the field of sociology. Results are contrasted with traditional subjective methods of codification of a field. (35 references) (LRW)
ISSN:0002-8231
1097-4571
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199009)41:6<444::AID-ASI12>3.0.CO;2-J