Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995

✍ Scribed by White, Howard D. ;McCain, Katherine W.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 926 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(19980401)49:4<327::aid-asi4>3.0.co;2-4

✦ Synopsis

This study presents an extensive domain analysis of a in articles, regardless of which of their works are cited. discipline-information science-in terms of its au-ACA synthesizes many such counts. Now that 15 years thors. Names of those most frequently cited in 12 key have passed since it was introduced by White and Griffith journals from 1972 through 1995 were retrieved from So-(1981), the present writers wish to explore this literaturecial Scisearch via DIALOG. The top 120 were submitted based technique as a means for contributing to intellectual to author co-citation analyses, yielding automatic classifications relevant to histories of the field. Tables and history. As in that earlier article, we shall use authors graphics reveal: (1) The disciplinary and institutional affrom information science to illustrate that, although ACA filiations of contributors to information science; (2) the is applicable in any discipline (Bayer, Smart, & Mcspecialty structure of the discipline over 24 years; (3)