Locating the network of interacting authors in scientific specialties

ScientometricsPublished 1 July 1995

Olle Persson, Martin J. Beckmann

DOI10.1007/bf02017336

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Citations53

SJR quartileQ1

SJR score1.15

SNIP1.82

TL;DR

The social circles, networks, or invisible colleges etc that make a scientific speciality in terms of (mathematically precise) sets generated by documents citation and accessible through the Social Science Citation Index is described.

Abstract

This paper seeks to describe the social circles, networks, or invisible colleges etc that make a scientific speciality in terms of (mathematically precise) sets generated by documents citation and accessible through theSocial Science Citation Index \TM . The document and author sets that encompass a scientific speciality are the basis for some interdependent citation matrices. We illustrate our method of construction of these sets and matrices through an application to the literature on \ldinvisible colleges\rd.

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