## Abstract In their article βRequirements for a cocitation similarity measure, with special reference to Pearson's correlation coefficient,β Ahlgren, Jarneving, and Rousseau fault traditional author cocitation analysis (ACA) for using Pearson's __r__ as a measure of similarity between authors beca
Author cocitation analysis and Pearson's r
β Scribed by Per Ahlgren; Bo Jarneving; Ronald Rousseau
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 48 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-2882
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