Mapping Intellectual Structure of a Scientific Subfield through Author Cocitations.

Bayer, Alan E.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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Mapping Intellectual Structure of a Scientific Subfield through Author Cocitations.

Bayer, Alan E.; And Others

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v41 n6 p444-52 Sep 1990

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)

Descriptors: Authors, Citation Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Codification, Correlation, Information Retrieval, Multidimensional Scaling, Sciences, Sociology, Validity

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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