Reports findings from a study of the geographical distribution of foreign authors in the "Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology"(JASIST) and "Journal of Documentation". Also identifies the top 10 geographic locations with the highest number of foreign authors and the top 10 most productive foreign authors. (Author/LRW)

Comments on author cocitation analysis theory and methods. By entering Pearson's r's into multidimensional scaling and clustering routines, the author shows that, despite r's fluctuations, clusters based on it are much the same for the combined groups as for the separate groups. The combined groups when mapped appear as polarized clumps of points…

Discussion of author cocitation analysis focuses on Pathfinder Networks (PFNET) where nodes represent authors and links represent weighted paths between nodes, the weights being cocitation counts. Highlights include remapping information science; comparison with principal components analysis; a correlation-based PFNET; and AuthorLink, a Web-based…

Using citations, papers and references as parameters a relatedness factor (RF) is computed for a series of journals. Sorting these journals by the RF produces a list of journals most closely related to a specified starting journal. The method appears to select a set of journals that are semantically most similar to the target journal. The…

With "Chemical Abstracts" and "Science Citation Index" both now available for citation searching, this study compares the duplication and uniqueness of citing references for works of chemistry researchers for the years 1999-2001. The two indexes cover very similar source material. This analysis of SciFinder Scholar and Web of…