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McCain, Katherine W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
Author cocitation analysis was used to investigate changes in intellectual structure of macroeconomics over two consecutive time periods, 1972-1977 and 1978-1983. Profile analysis, nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and clustering techniques were used to create two-dimensional maps displaying changing relationships among 41 authors as perceived…
Descriptors: Authors, Citations (References), Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping
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McCain, Katherine W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Presents an overview of current data gathering and analytical techniques for author cocitation analysis (ACA). Highlights include selection of the author set; retrieval of cocited author counts; multivariate analyses, including multidimensional scaling; data display techniques; an example for macroeconomics; interpretation and validation of…
Descriptors: Authors, Citation Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Computer Graphics
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McCain, Katherine W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
To test validity of cocitation studies as representations of intellectual structure, five-six years of aggregate cocitation data for 41 authors in macroeconomics and 49 authors in genetics of fruit flies were compared with independent judgments of interauthor similarity collected from 14 macroeconomists and 15 geneticists via a card-sorting…
Descriptors: Authors, Charts, Citations (References), Cluster Analysis