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The Classification Society’s Bibliography Over Four Decades: History and Content Analysis

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The Classification Literature Automated Search Service, an annual bibliography based on citation of one or more of a set of around 80 book or journal publications, ran from 1972 to 2012. We analyze here the years 1994 to 2012. The Classification Society’s Service, as it was termed, was produced by the Classification Society. In earlier decades it was distributed as a diskette or CD with the Journal of Classification. Among our findings are the following: an enormous increase in scholarly production in this area post approximately 2000; and another big increase in quantity of publications from approximately 2004. The over 93,000 bibliographic records used is the basis for determining the research disciplines that we analyze. We make all this data available for download, formatted in text and in XML, with an accompanying Apache Lucene/Solr search interface.

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  1. University of London, London, UK

    Fionn Murtagh

  2. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Michael J. Kurtz

  3. Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, SE14 6NW, UK

    Fionn Murtagh

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Eva Whitmore’s role as Technical Editor from the academic year 1988–1989 to the beginning of 2013 has been greatly appreciated. We thank the reviewers, whose work led to a number of improvements in the paper.

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Murtagh, F., Kurtz, M.J. The Classification Society’s Bibliography Over Four Decades: History and Content Analysis. J Classif 33, 6–29 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00357-016-9196-4

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