✦ LIBER ✦
Some comments on the question whether co-occurrence data should be normalized
✍ Scribed by Ludo Waltman; Nees Jan van Eck
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-2882
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In a recent article in JASIST, L. Leydesdorff and L. Vaughan (2006) asserted that raw cocitation data should be analyzed directly, without first applying a normalization such as the Pearson correlation. In this communication, it is argued that there is nothing wrong with the widely adopted practice of normalizing cocitation data. One of the arguments put forward by Leydesdorff and Vaughan turns out to depend crucially on incorrect multidimensional scaling maps that are due to an error in the PROXSCAL program in SPSS.