The intellectual base and research fronts ofJASIS 1986-1990

Persson, Olle

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199401)45:1<31::aid-asi4>3.0.co;2-g

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“…The nature and intellectual organization of LIS has been thoroughly investigated in analyses describing the general traits of LIS research, as well as mapping how LIS has been organized in different research themes (Persson, 1994;White & Griffith, 1981;White & McCain, 1998). However, fewer studies have dealt with the period after 1995-one exception is Morris (2004) visualization of LIS 1981-2001and few have analyzed changes within the discipline over time.…”

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Changes in the LIS research front: Time‐sliced cocitation analyses of LIS journal articles, 1990–2004

Åström

2007

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Based on articles published in 1990-2004 in 21 libraryand information science (LIS) journals, a set of cocitation analyses was performed to study changes in research fronts over the last 15 years, where LIS is at now, and to discuss where it is heading. To study research fronts, here defined as current and influential cocited articles, a citations among documents methodology was applied; and to study changes, the analyses were time-sliced into three 5-year periods. The results show a stable structure of two distinct research fields: informetrics and information seeking and retrieval (ISR). However, experimental retrieval research and user oriented research have merged into one ISR field; and IR and informetrics also show signs of coming closer together, sharing research interests and methodologies, making informetrics research more visible in mainstream LIS research. Furthermore, the focus on the Internet, both in ISR research and in informetrics-where webometrics quickly has become a dominating research area-is an important change. The future is discussed in terms of LIS dependency on technology, how integration of research areas as well as technical systems can be expected to continue to characterize LIS research, and how webometrics will continue to develop and find applications.

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Changes in the LIS research front: Time‐sliced cocitation analyses of LIS journal articles, 1990–2004

Åström

2007

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…This last network comprises 9,061 nodes and 288,782 edges among them and accounts for the way the literature of the field was used by recent scholarship. Recent trends in the literature can be mapped by bibliographic coupling, the literature or "intellectual base" they rely on by using co-citation networks (Persson, 1994;Hammarfelt, 2011).…”

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The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Colavizza

2017

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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Over the past decades, the humanities have been accumulating a growing body of literature at an increasing pace. How does this impact their traditional organization into disciplines and fields of research therein? This article considers history, by examining a citation network among recent monographs on the history of Venice. The resulting network is almost connected, clusters of monographs are identifiable according to specific disciplinary areas (history, history of architecture, and history of arts) or periods of time (middle ages, early modern, and modern history), and a map of the recent trends in the field is sketched. Most notably a set of highly cited works emerges as the core literature of the historians of Venice. This core literature comprises a mix of primary sources, works of reference, and scholarly monographs and is important in keeping the field connected: monographs usually cite a combination of few core and a variety of less well-cited works. Core primary sources and works of reference never age, while core scholarly monographs are replaced at a very slow rate by new ones. The reliance of new publications on the core literature is slowly rising over time, as the field gets increasingly more varied.

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“…These retrieved data, including citing articles and their references, thus form a foundation of bibliometric analysis. In the framework, salient co-cited articles comprise an intellectual basis of research, while terms derived from citing and cited articles are utilized to detect research fronts and focus over time [13]. The inter-relationships among the analyses are shown in Figure 1 as well.…”

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Visualization of International Energy Policy Research

2016

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Abstract:The complexity of policy decision making is well recognized. It is not clear, however, what role academic policy research has played in influencing the directions of policy outcomes and how the research has intertwined with notable issues globally. Given the importance of energy choices on sustainable development, we have developed a comprehensive and powerful visualization of the research trends worldwide in energy policy studies over the past five decades using the literature metrology theory and its techniques. The analytical framework provides a visual tracking of research activity, directional flow and a robust basis for judging progress. The emergent findings are an aid to decision makers drawing insights from specific policy studies within a fully transparent view of the historical context on a global scale.

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The intellectual base and research fronts ofJASIS 1986-1990

Cited by 297 publications

References 5 publications

Changes in the LIS research front: Time‐sliced cocitation analyses of LIS journal articles, 1990–2004

Changes in the LIS research front: Time‐sliced cocitation analyses of LIS journal articles, 1990–2004

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Visualization of International Energy Policy Research

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