Paper Info
Title
Complete graphs and bibliographic coupling: A test of the applicability of bibliographic coupling for the identification of cognitive cores on the field level
Abstract
The method of bibliographic coupling in combination with the complete link cluster method was applied for mapping of the field of organic chemistry with the purpose of testing the applicability of a proposed mapping method on the field level. The method put forward aimed at the generation of cognitive cores of documents, so-called ‘bibliographic cliques’ in the network of bibliographically coupled research articles. The defining feature of these cliques is that they can be considered complete graphs where each bibliographic coupling link ties an unordered pair of documents. In this way, it was presumed that coherent groups of documents in the research front would be found and that these groups would be intellectually coherent as well. Statistical analysis and subject specialist evaluations confirmed these presumptions. The study also elaborates on the choice of observation period and the application of thresholds in relation to the size of document populations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.joi.2007.08.001
Journal of Informetrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bibliographic coupling,Science mapping,Research fronts
Science mapping,Data mining,Graph,Unordered pair,Information retrieval,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Bibliographic coupling,Cognition,Statistical analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
4
1751-1577
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.51
13
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bo Jarneving129220.32