Following academic globalization, successful integration into the international research community is a fundamental interest for all participating countries. The success of these internationalization processes, however, are often under scrutiny, and the results are rarely unequivocal. This holds true for Central and Eastern Europe, which usually…

Scientific results are communicated visually in the literature through diagrams, visualizations, and photographs. In this thesis, we developed a figure processing pipeline to classify more than 8 million figures from PubMed Central into different figure types and study the resulting patterns of visual information as they relate to scholarly…

This study used citation analysis to determine whether the disciplines contributing to the journal literature of artificial intelligence (AI)--philosophy, psychology, linguistics, computer science, and engineering--share a common AI research base. The idea that AI consists of a completely interdisciplinary endeavor was refuted. (MES)

Describes a study of the comembership patterns of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), using techniques from author cocitation analysis and a structural modeling approach to provide a descriptive analysis of the SIG-based structure of ASIS. (Contains 11 references.) (LRW)

A citation analysis of English language journal literature in librarianship and information science was conducted to determine the degree to which authors from the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States cite foreign literature. Comparison of the results indicates that UK journals are more receptive to foreign literature. (17 references) (LRW)

Discusses the capability of cocitation analysis to map structural aspects of subject matter specialties of scientific research in a given period. A quantitative analysis of a combination of cocitation and word analysis is described, the construction of word profiles is explained, and empirical results of two case studies are presented. (37…

Describes a study that examined the editorial goals of three editors of "Elementary School Journal" and the citation patterns of the journal under each editor. Variables examined were number of citations received, number of citations given, immediacy index, and impact factor. It is concluded that editorial policy may have an impact on citation…

Examines journal influence in communicating management information systems (MIS) research over a nine-year period using citation analyses, researcher perceptions, and publishing patterns of MIS research universities. A core group of MIS journals is identified, and ranking according to journal influence is discussed. (37 references) (LRW)

Describes results of a citation analysis of 209 articles from the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science" (JASIS) that was conducted to determine the intellectual base and the research front. Topics discussed include citation-based mapping techniques, including bibliographic coupling and cocitation analysis; and…

Investigates the nature of published literature about public libraries based on a search of the ERIC database on CD-ROM. Findings show that authorship is dispersed, recently published journals and books are most often cited, and the specific subject matter is diverse. (EA)

Discussion of citation networks as a reflection of the intellectual developments in a scientific field focuses on an analysis of citations in the "Journal of Conflict Resolution." Main path analysis is described; the development of the field of conflict resolution is discussed; and interdisciplinarity is explored. (17 references) (LRW)

This continuation of the previous article on the use of cocitation and word analysis for science mapping focuses on the analysis of dynamical, or time-dependent, aspects of scientific research. A study is described that analyzed cocitation cluster-based publication groups for 10 successive years in atomic and molecular physics. (14 references)…

Describes a study that tested the status-role hypothesis by examining the citation networks of geographic journals at distinct time points. The need to consider time factors and disciplinary conditions when interpreting clustering representations is discussed. (25 references) (CLB)

An analysis of the acknowledgments accompanying scholarly articles in 4 information and library science journals over a 20-year period showed that a small number of individuals are acknowledged frequently whereas most individuals are infrequently acknowledged. A positive correlation between frequency of acknowledgments and citations was found.…

Reports on a study on the use of quotations in 12 scholarly books in 4 subject areas--the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Data are presented on length of quotations and numbers of references. The need for research to identify patterns among quotations that would facilitate design of improved indexing and searching…