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AUTHORS AS MARKERS OF INTELLECTUAL SPACE: CO‐CITATION IN STUDIES OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

HOWARD D. WHITE (School of Library and Information Science, Drexel University)
BELVER C. GRIFFITH (School of Library and Information Science, Drexel University)

Journal of Documentation

ISSN: 0022-0418

Article publication date: 1 April 1982

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Abstract

Interrelations of writings in a complex field such as studies of science, technology and society, turn out to be highly patterned when data on author co‐citations are statistically analysed and mapped. For both authors and specialities, the maps reveal structures of subject matter and intellectual impact, based on the perceptions of hundreds of citers since 1972. A new tool thus is available to historians and others concerned with a field's intellectual development.

Citation

WHITE, H.D. and GRIFFITH, B.C. (1982), "AUTHORS AS MARKERS OF INTELLECTUAL SPACE: CO‐CITATION IN STUDIES OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 38 No. 4, pp. 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026731

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MCB UP Ltd

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