Political Science: An Import-Export Analysis of Journals and Footnotes

Weavers of Influence: The Structure of Contemporary Geographic Research

“…The high ratios for centurions might seem to imply that their work has a significant impact outside the discipline, but this inference is contradicted by the results of two other studies. Laponce (1980), examining the relationships between political science and cognate disciplines via the import and export of citations, concludes that geography is almost wholly isolated. This contention is, in turn, disputed by Bodman (1986).…”

Geography and Social Sciences in Transdisciplinary Science

“…In the comparisons drawn by Jean Laponce (1980), geography and history were the most "autarchic" in the fl ow of knowledge within the social sciences, although the fragmentary nature of this bibliometric analysis suggests caution in drawing any far-fetched conclusions. The bibliometric analysis carried out in the United Kingdom (Research Assessment Exercise 2001) revealed that representatives of human geography were more open than representatives of sociology and political science since they would publish their works in both international and interdisciplinary journals (Johnston, 2003).…”

“…However, a bibliometric analysis of the links of social sciences with other groups of disciplines shows that their external ties among nine groups of scientifi c disciplines are rather poor (Morrillo et al, 2003). Among the social sciences, anthropology is ranked fi rst in terms of the assimilation of knowledge from other groups of sciences, followed by geography, and then psychology, all of them having the strongest links with the natural sciences (Laponce, 1980). Nevertheless, the gap between human geography and social sciences seems stronger than the one between physical geography and natural sciences because human geographers from Anglo-Saxon countries publish their works in geographic journals more frequently than physical geographers, who in turn publish more often in the journals of other natural sciences (Johnston, 2002).…”

Factors Influencing the Development of Political Science in Canada: A Case and a Model

“…Jean Laponce (1985) gives another interpretation of core-periphery relations in his paper, '"Canadian" political science between the relevant and the irrelevant, the rational and the irrational, the macro and the micro, the core and the peripheries: its growth and diversification in the last thirty years', in which he portrays the 'balance of intellectual trade' within and between disciplines -as opposed to countries. See also 'Political science: an import-export analysis' (Laponce, 1980).…”