Abstract | ||
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Seismology has several features that suggest it is a highly internationalized field: the subject matter is global, the tools
used to analyse seismic waves are dependent upon information technologies, and governments are interested in funding cooperative
research. We explore whether an emerging field like seismology has a more internationalised structure than the older, related
field of geophysics. Using aggregated journal-journal citations, we first show that, within the citing environment, seismology
emerged from within geophysics as its own field in the 1990s. The bibliographic analysis, however, does not show that seismology
is more internationalised than geophysics: in 2000, seismology had a lower percentage of all articles co-authored on an international
basis. Nevertheless, social network analysis shows that the core group of cooperating countries within seismology is proportionately
larger and more distributed than that within geophysics. While the latter exhibits an established network with a hierarchy,
the formation of a field in terms of new partnership relations is ongoing in seismology. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2003 | 10.1023/A:1025479524390 | Scientometrics |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Geophysics,Social Network Analysis,Earthquake Engineer,Science Citation Index,Seismological Society | Journal | 58 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
1 | 1588-2861 | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.63 | 8 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Caroline S. Wagner | 1 | 409 | 26.07 |
Loet Leydesdorff | 2 | 4987 | 381.86 |