Author cocitation analysis; quantitative methods for mapping the intellectual structure of an academic discipline.

9781599047386

Author cocitation analysis; quantitative methods for mapping the intellectual structure of an academic discipline.

Eom, Sean.

Information Science Reference

2009

347 pages

$165.00

Hardcover

Z669

Cocitation analysis, a newer subfield of informetrics, refers to the research involved with tracing and linking the origin of knowledge in electronic media and communications. This textbook describes the quantitative methods of cocitation analysis for students and researchers for almost any academic discipline, with Eom (management information systems, Southeast Missouri State U.) offering tutorials on principle component analysis, building custom databases with the Fox-Base approach, the Distance and Cluster Procedure and multidimensional scaling. A chapter is also included that outlines the intellectual structure of decision support system research from 1969 to 1989.

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