Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995

Conhecimento Científico sobre Liderança: Uma Análise Bibliométrica do Acervo do The Leadership Quarterly

“…Quanto ao intervalo temporal do estudo, buscou-se coletar os artigos dos últimos seis anos, uma vez que podem ser classificados como recentes e, por isso, representam as pesquisas de ponta sobre o tema veiculadas pelo jornal. A bibliometria é um método de análise de dados bibliográficos que tem o intuito de encontrar padrões e tendências por intermédio do tratamento de citações e cocitações (D. White & Mccain, 1998;H. White & Griffith, 1981).…”

A new technique for building maps of large scientific domains based on the cocitation of classes and categories

“…White and McCain, 30 on the basis of this domain analysis, propose graphic representation or visualization as a model for information retrieval and analysis. To corroborate their theory, in 1988 they 132 Scientometrics 61 (2004) analyzed information science 31 in terms of the authors of the 12 journals that, according to their criteria, were most important between 1972 and 1995. Garfield 32 states that the new techniques of visualization make possible the generation of global science maps which, by zooming over or representing different time periods, allow us to identify the emerging research fronts, revealing the interests of researchers now at work and allowing us to associate author names to each front.…”

A new approach to institutional domain analysis: Multilevel research fronts structure

“…Unlike the disciplinary domain studies in which one of the main difficulties reported resides in the selection of the entities (authors, journals, etc.) to include in the analysis [6,14,26], in institutional domains these entities are indeed given. For institutions with a multidisciplinary profile, the difficulties lie both in determining the boundaries between subject groupings that arise in the disciplinary structure, and in establishing the cutoff point for citation and cocitation frequency in order to guarantee the validity of the representations obtained.…”