Author cocitation analysis quantitative methods for mapping the intellectual structure of an academic discipline /

• Main Author: Eom, Sean B.
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Bibliometrics.; Bibliography > Databases.; Multivariate analysis.; Research > Statistical methods > Data processing.; ACA online data retrieval; Author cocitation analysis procedures; Author cocitation mapping; Bibliometrics and informetrics; Building custom databases; Cocitation counts generation system; Decision support systems research; Diagonal values in ACA; Distance and cluster procedures; Intellectual structure mapping of an academic discipline; Multidimensional scaling; Principal component analysis
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xix, 347 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781599047409 (ebook); 1599047403 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"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.