Name
Title | ||
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Brief Communication Adjacency and proximity searching in the Science Citation Index and Google |
Abstract | ||
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We have developed simple algorithms that allow adjacency and proximity searching in Google and the Science Citation Index (SCI). The SCI algorithm exploits the fact that SCI stopwords in a search phrase function as a placeholder. Such a phrase serves effectively as a fixed adjacency condition determined by the numbern of adjacent stopwords (i.e. retrieve all records where word A and word B are separated byn words in at least one location). The algorithm integrates over search phrases with different numbers of adjacent stopwords to provide a flexible adjacency or proximity capability (i.e. retrieve all records where word A and word B are separated byn or fewer words in at least one location, wheren is the maximum separation desired between A and B in at least one location). The Google algorithm exploits the fact that asterisks (in Google) separating words in a phrase function like word wildcards. The difference between two such phrases (the first phrase containing one fewer asterisk than the second phrase) serves effectively as a fixed adjacency or proximity condition, with the number of separating words equal to the number of asterisks in the first phrase. The algorithm integrates over these phrase differentials to provide a flexible adjacency or proximity capability (i.e. retrieve all records where word A and word B are separated byn or fewer words in at least one location, wheren is the maximum separation desired between A and B in at least one location). |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2006 | 10.1177/0165551506067126 | J. Information Science |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
word A,adjacent stopwords,Brief Communication Adjacency,fewer word,proximity capability,word B,byn word,separated byn,maximum separation,Science Citation Index,phrase differential,flexible adjacency | Journal | 32 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
6 | 0165-5515 | 2 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.41 | 1 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ronald N. Kostoff | 1 | 338 | 38.42 |
| John T. Rigsby | 2 | 25 | 2.98 |
| Ryan B. Barth | 3 | 6 | 0.85 |