Paper Info
Title
The delineation of specialties in terms of journals using the dynamic journal set of the SCI
Abstract
In order to attribute journals to specialties in a dynamic journal set by using aggregated journal-journal citations derived from theScience Citation Index, it is necessary to complement the multi-variate analysis of this data with a time-serices perspective. This calls for a more analytical approach to the problem of choice among the many possible parameters for clustering. Changes in the disciplinary structure of science are tracked by using thedifferences among the multi-variate analyses for the various years. It is impossible to attribute change systematically to structure, noise, or deviance if these uncertainties are not clearly definedex ante. The study discusses the various choices which have to be made, in both conceptual and methodological terms. In addition to hierarchies among journals, one has to assume heterarchy among journal groups (and their centroids). For comprehensive mapping, a concept of macro-journals as representations of a density of points in the multi-dimensinoal space is defined. Empirical reslts indicate the feasibility of dynamic journal-journal mapping by using these methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1007/BF02016797
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Analytical Approach,Citation Index,Comprehensive Mapping,Disciplinary Structure,Journal Group
Data mining,Heterarchy,Information retrieval,Computer science,Citation index,Operations research,Citation analysis,Discipline,Bibliometrics,Scientometrics,Hierarchy,Cluster analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
1
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
57
7.69
18
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Loet Leydesdorff14987381.86
Susan E. Cozzens217128.36