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Garfield, Eugene; Pudovkin, A. I.; Istomin, V. S. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Provides an applications-oriented view of algorithmic historiography and how it relates to understanding scientific paradigms. Discusses HistCite[TM], a program that allows scholars to identify significant works on a given topic; paradigm shifts; a genealogic approach; citation analyses; correcting variations in citations; and bibliographic…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Citation Analysis, Computer Software, Genealogy
Garfield, Eugene; Pudovkin, A. I.; Istomin, V. S. – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2002
Discussion of mapping and visualizing in scholarly literature focuses on the development of software called HistCite for generating chronological maps of collections, where all cited references for source documents are captured, using scientific literature as an example. Generates tables of the most-cited works to help searchers identify the most…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Citation Analysis, Computer Software Development, Historiography

Pudovkin, Alexander I.; Garfield, Eugene – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
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…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Citation Analysis, Citations (References), Comparative Analysis