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ASSESSING OBLITERATION BY INCORPORATION IN A FULL-TEXT DATABASE: JSTOR AND THE CONCEPT OF "BOUNDED RATIONALITY."
14TH INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS CONFERENCE (ISSI), pp.185-199
01 Jan 2013
Abstract
To evaluate the usefulness of a full-text database as a source for assessing Obliteration by Incorporation, 3707 article records including the catchphrases "bounded rationality" and/or "boundedly rational" (connected with the work of H.A. Simon) in the article text were retrieved from JSTOR, a full-text database with broad disciplinary coverage. Two subsets were drawn for analysis-a 10% systematic sample of all records (364 articles analysed) and a set of all records with a catchphrase in the Title and/or Abstract field (178 articles analysed). A majority of articles in both subsets came from Economics and Management journals, while Psychology was poorly represented due to database coverage. In the 10% sample, based on the percentage of true implicit citations, a low level of OBI was observed in the 80% of records that had a catchphrase in the body of the article, rather than just in the reference list. Most indirect citations were to sources that themselves cited a relevant work by Simon. Over 90% of the sample articles would not have been retrieved with a database record search because they lacked the catchphrase in the record fields and the percentage of implicit citations was significantly higher in these articles.
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- Title
- ASSESSING OBLITERATION BY INCORPORATION IN A FULL-TEXT DATABASE: JSTOR AND THE CONCEPT OF "BOUNDED RATIONALITY."
- Creators
- Katherine W. McCain
- Contributors
- J Gorraiz (Editor)E Schiebel (Editor)C Gumpenberger (Editor)M Horlesberger (Editor)H Moed (Editor)
- Publication Details
- 14TH INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS CONFERENCE (ISSI), pp.185-199
- Conference
- 14TH INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS CONFERENCE (ISSI), 14th
- Series
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics
- Publisher
- Int Soc Scientometrics & Informetrics-Issi
- Number of pages
- 15
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Identifiers
- 991019170451004721
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