Paper Info
Title
Indices of journal citation relatedness and citation relationships among aquatic biology journals
Abstract
Simple quantitative indices of pair-wise journal citation relatedness (based on the numbers of references given to and received from a journal title, which are provided by Science Citation Index database) are translated by an automatic clustering procedure into a meaningful map diagram reflecting topical relatedness of journals within a field of science. Such a map for 60 journals in marine and freshwater biology and related sciences published in 1987 reveals a tight cluster of marine biology journals quite distinct from the freshwater biology journal cluster and from the fisheries cluster. The journals within the marine biology cluster and those with strongest pair-wise links with them can be regarded as the core journals in marine biology. Indices of unilateral citation relatedness are used to obtain diagrams, which we term citograms. The citograms visualize patterns of citation relatedness of a journal (its citing and being cited). Journal self-citation can be meaningfully estimated using the bilateral index of relatedness. Self-citation is high in specialized or regional journal titles. It also appears to be quite substantial in journals of broader scope, which possibly reflect authors' subjective preferences.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1007/BF02017642
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Marine Biology,Science Citation Index,Freshwater Biology,Subjective Preference,Journal Title
Science Citation Index,Data mining,Sociology,Citation,Citation analysis,Freshwater biology,Aquatic biology,Scientometrics,Marine biology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
3
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
1.51
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. I. Pudovkin110717.09
Elizabeth A. Fuseler261.51