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The Effects of Co-citation Proximity on Co-citation Analysis
PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2, pp.474-484
01 Jan 2011
Abstract
In this paper we investigate the effects of co-citation proximity on the quality of co-citation analysis through four experiments of co-citation instances found in full-text scientific publications. First, we compared the distributions of co-citation instances at four levels of proximity in journal articles with the traditionally used article-level co-citation counts. Second, we analyzed how co-citation instances at different proximity levels are distributed across organizational sections in articles. Third, the distribution of co-citation proximity over different co-citation frequency groups is investigated. Fourth, we identified the occurrences of co-citations at different proximity levels with reference to the corresponding traditional co-citation network. The results show that sentence-level co-citations not only preserve the essential structure of the corresponding traditional co-citation network but also form a much smaller subset of the entire co-citation instances typically considered by traditional co-citation analysis. Implications for improving our understanding of underlying factors concerning co-citations and developing more efficient co-citation analysis methods are discussed.
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- Title
- The Effects of Co-citation Proximity on Co-citation Analysis
- Creators
- Shengbo Liu - Dalian Univ Technol, WISElab, Dalian, Peoples R ChinaChaomei Chen - Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
- Contributors
- E Noyons (Editor)P Ngulube (Editor)J Leta (Editor)
- Publication Details
- PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2, pp.474-484
- Conference
- ISSI 2011 - 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, 13th
- Series
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics
- Publisher
- Int Soc Scientometrics & Informetrics-Issi
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- 08BTQ025 / Chinese National Social Science Foundation
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics)
- Identifiers
- 991019170474404721
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