citation |
cited journals, terms, and authors |
journal titles, terms in the articles’ titles and abstracts, authors listed in bibliographies |
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Observe the frequency of direct citations of an item in the corpus of the study to measure its influence. |
The number of times an item (journals, terms, authors) is cited is an objective indicator of its relevance or impact in a scientific domain. |
Facilitates the ranking by order of importance of a bibliographic element, as defined by practitioners of a discipline or scientific field. |
journals co-citation |
cited journals |
journal titles |
The relationship between items is determined based on the number of times journals are reciprocally cited (McCAIN, 1991McCAIN, Katherine W. (1991), Mapping economics through the journal literature: an experiment in journal cocitation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science . Vol. 42, Nº 04, pp. 290–296.). |
Identify the formation of informal communities in the studied area. |
The proximity between journals can reveal the institutional structure underlying a scientific field and, by extension, the recurrent practices of a discipline. |
Allows the identification of scientific, thematic, theoretical, editorial, geographical, linguistic, etc. affinity clusters. |
co-word |
recurring words |
words in the articles’ titles and abstracts |
The relationship between words and their binding strength is determined based on the number of times they occur together in articles (CALLON et al., 1983CALLON, Michel; COURTIAL, Jean-Pierre; TURNER, Willam A., and BAIUN, Serge (1983), From translations to problematic networks: an introduction to co-word analysis. Social Science Information . Vol. 22, Nº 02, pp. 191–235.). |
Discover the conceptual framework of a scientific area. |
The intensity of the links between the terms and groups of terms in a network is an indicator of their thematic, theoretical, or methodological affinities. |
Measures the strength of association between terms and, by extension, between themes, problems, concepts, methods, and research techniques in common as coordinated in a field. |
author co-citation |
cited authors |
bibliographic references |
The relationship between the items is determined by the number of times documents/authors are cited together in the reference list of articles in the study corpus (White and Griffith, 1981WHITE, Howard D. and GRIFFITH, Belver C. (1981), Author cocitation: a literature measure of intellectual structure. Journal of the American Society for Information Science . Vol. 32, Nº 03, pp. 163–171.). |
Point out the different intellectual traditions that shape the structure of a given study area based on the most relevant authors. |
The frequency in which two bibliographic references are cited indicates that they belong to the same school of thought. |
Reveals, through the most co-cited references, the intellectual basis and the reference authors in a given research field. |