Author cocitation analysis quantitative methods for mapping the intellectual structure of an academic discipline
Title:
Author cocitation analysis quantitative methods for mapping the intellectual structure of an academic discipline
Author:
Eom, Sean B.
ISBN:
9781599047409
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xix, 347 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
Section I: Foundations -- Chapter I. An Introduction to Bibliometrics and Informetrics --
Section II. Fundamental Issues in ACA Online Data Retrieval -- Chapter II. An Introduction to Online Data Retrieval and Issues -- Chapter III. The Impact of the ISI Convention of Relying on only the Name of the First Author on ACA Results: An Empirical Investigation -- Chapter IV. Diagonal Values in ACA --
Section III. Alternative Approaches: Building Custom Databases -- Chapter V. The Fox-Base Approach -- Chapter VI. Building Databases and the Cocitation Counts Generation System Using Microsoft Excel Program in Visual Basics --
Section IV. Author Cocitation Analysis Procedures -- Chapter VII. Overview of Author Cocitation Analysis Procedures -- Chapter VIII. Principal Component Analysis Using the Factor Procedure -- Chapter IX. The Distance and Cluster Procedure -- Chapter X. Multidimensional Scaling -- Chapter XI. ACA Analysis with the 15.0.0 version of SPSS for Windows --
Section V. Applications in the MIS Area -- Chapter XII. The Intellectual Structure of Decision Support Systems Research (1969-1989) -- Chapter XIII. The Changing Structure of Decision Support Systems Research: An Empirical Investigation through Author Cocitation Mapping (1990-1999) -- About the Author -- Index.
Abstract:
"This book introduces an alternative approach to conducting author cocitation analysis (ACA) without relying on commercial citation databases such as index ISI citation index. It is based on a custom bibliographic database and cocitation matrix generation systems specifically developed to use the custom database"--Provided by publisher.
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Electronic Access:
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