Cover Image

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

"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 t...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • Section I: Foundations
  • Chapter I. An Introduction to Bibliometrics and Informetrics
  • Section II. Fundamental Issues in ACA Online Data Retrieval
  • Chapter II. An Introduction to Online Data Retrieval and Issues
  • Chapter III. The Impact of the ISI Convention of Relying on only the Name of the First Author on ACA Results: An Empirical Investigation
  • Chapter IV. Diagonal Values in ACA
  • Section III. Alternative Approaches: Building Custom Databases
  • Chapter V. The Fox-Base Approach
  • Chapter VI. Building Databases and the Cocitation Counts Generation System Using Microsoft Excel Program in Visual Basics
  • Section IV. Author Cocitation Analysis Procedures
  • Chapter VII. Overview of Author Cocitation Analysis Procedures
  • Chapter VIII. Principal Component Analysis Using the Factor Procedure
  • Chapter IX. The Distance and Cluster Procedure
  • Chapter X. Multidimensional Scaling
  • Chapter XI. ACA Analysis with the 15.0.0 version of SPSS for Windows
  • Section V. Applications in the MIS Area
  • Chapter XII. The Intellectual Structure of Decision Support Systems Research (1969-1989)
  • Chapter XIII. The Changing Structure of Decision Support Systems Research: An Empirical Investigation through Author Cocitation Mapping (1990-1999)
  • About the Author
  • Index.

Similar Items