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Oberhofer, Cecilia M. A. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Discussion of the use of scientific information disseminated in primary subject literature focuses on a study that developed a methodology for hypothesis testing that measured document obsolescence by means of citation analysis and content obsolescence by expert opinions and then compared the results. Information validity and information utility…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing