Mapping intellectual structure of a scientific subfield through author cocitations

A new approach to institutional domain analysis: Multilevel research fronts structure

“…Unlike the disciplinary domain studies in which one of the main difficulties reported resides in the selection of the entities (authors, journals, etc.) to include in the analysis [6,14,26], in institutional domains these entities are indeed given. For institutions with a multidisciplinary profile, the difficulties lie both in determining the boundaries between subject groupings that arise in the disciplinary structure, and in establishing the cutoff point for citation and cocitation frequency in order to guarantee the validity of the representations obtained.…”

A Historical Observation of the Intellectual and Institutional Structures of the Field

“…We used Pearson r as a measure of similarity between author pairs because it registers the likeness in shape of their cocitation count profiles over all other authors (White & McCain, 1998). These principles and procedures are in accordance with and have been extensively discussed in prior research (Bayer, Smart, & McLaughlin, 1990;Braam, Moed and Raan, 1991;Culnan, 1986;Culnan, 1987;Culnan & Chatman, 1990;Paisley, 1990;White, 1981;White & Griffith, 1981;White & McCain, 1998). For study 2, we employed some further steps to account for limitations in the SSCI such that authors were not credited for papers in which they were not the primary author, which lead to an underrepresentation of co-authors in co-citation data.…”

“…After deleting one author who failed to co-cite with any other author, we converted the resultant 56x56 raw co-citation matrix to a Pearson correlation matrix (Culnan, 1986(Culnan, , 1987Culnan & Swanson, 1986;McCain, 1990;White & Griffith, 1981;White & McCain, 1998). The principles and detailed procurement of co-cited author retrieval have been extensively discussed elsewhere for those seeking a deeper understanding of the co-citation methodology (Bayer, Smart, & McLaughlin, 1990;Braam, Moed, & Van Raan, 1991;Culnan, 1986Culnan, , 1987Culnan et al, 1990;Paisley, 1990;White & Griffith, 1981;White & McCain, 1998).…”

Bibliometric analysis of the international literature on open innovation and absorptive capacity

“…Una anàlisi de co-citació compta la freqüència amb què l'article d'un autor és co-cita amb un altre entre les referències dels documents esmentats (Bayer, Smart & Mclaughlin, 1990). Se suposa que quan major és la freqüència amb què aquests dos autors són citats junts, més similars els seus patrons de co-cites són amb els altres, i més propera serà la relació entre ells (White & Griffithe, 1981).…”