Mapping of science by combined co citation and word analysis…通过组合引用和词语分析进行科学映射.pdfVIP

Mapping of Science by Combined Co-Citation and Word Analysis. I. Structural Aspects Robert Ft. Braam, Henk F. Moed, and Anthony F. J. van Raan Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), University of Leiden, Wassenaarseweg 52, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RI3 Leiden, The Netherlands The claim that co-citation analysis is a useful tool to However, the validity and the practical usefulness of map subject-matter specialties of scientific research in co-citation analysis for science-policy purposes is sub- a given period, is examined. A method has been devel- ject of recent studies and debates (ABRC, 1986; Healey oped using quantitative analysis of content-words re- lated to publications in order to: (1) study coherence of et al., 1986; Hicks, 1987; Franklin, 1988; Hicks, 1988). research topics within sets of publications citing clus- In this article we focus on the capability of co- ters, i.e., (part of) the “current work” of a specialty; citation analysis to map structural aspects of scien- (2) to study differences in research topics between sets tific research on the level of research specialties. For of publications citing different clusters; and (3) to evalu- a discussion of dynamical aspects we refer to a re- ate recall of “current work” publications concerning the specialties identified by co-citation a