Reviews citation networks and discovers that the six major areas of activity in mass communication research are (1) television and politics, (2) sociological studies of journalists, (3) agenda setting, (4) the effects of mass communication, (5) the credibility of various news media, and (6) the characteristics of users and nonusers of mass media.…

Presented is the index to the journal BioScience for 1976, Volume 26. Both an author and subject index are provided. (SL)

The present installment continues the updating service and supplements coverage contained in MMRI-1972. (Author)

The present installment continues the updating service and supplements coverage contained in MMRI-1972. (Author)

Contrasts the nature of citation practices in the sciences and in the humanities, and details the workings of the Institute for Scientific Information's new Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Fifteen references are cited. (FM)

Identifies universities employing the top economists, ranks the top 50 economists from 1971-85, and points out the top 50 young economists. Uses the total number of citations, the rank by mean number of citations, and the mean number of citations to identifying these scholars. Includes ranked lists with the number of citations. (GG)

Reports on Social Sciences Citation Index citations of six periodicals, three that cover business communication explicitly and three that address related areas. Finds that business communication articles are cited by many different journals, but with low frequency, and that business communication periodicals compare favorably on several indices of…

Compares the compact disc read-only-memory (CD-ROM) Magazine Article Summaries (MAS) and Magazine Index Plus Backfile (MI+) in terms of system hardware, index coverage, searching capabilities, citation display, printing citations, local holdings, and miscellaneous features and costs. Finds in favor of MAS. (DMM)

This operating manual was constructed for the first version of the experimental database system SOUCIT, a qualified citation index for educational technology designed by the Computer Services Unit of Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology (RGIT) in association with the Scottish Education Department. The database comprises 45 references generated…

Both popular and scholarly source materials on the American Indians were compiled in this index by American Indian scholars. Both the authors and the 65 subject areas chosen for indexing are entered in alphabetical order. In addition to books and unpublished doctoral dissertations, 296 periodicals were searched and the articles on American Indians…

This bibliography includes studies of defense mechanisms, in general, and studies of multiple mechanisms. Defense mechanisms, briefly and simply defined, are the unconscious ego defendants against unpleasure, threat, or anxiety. Sigmund Freud deserves the clinical credit for studying many mechanisms and introducing them in professional literature.…

Sigmund Freund worked with the mechanisms of displacement, substitution, and sublimation. These mechanisms have many similarities and have been studied diagnostically and therapeutically. Displacement and substitution seem to fit in well with phobias, hysterias, somatiyations, prejudices, and scapegoating. Phobias, prejudices, and scapegoating…

Describes early Hebrew citation indexes, both embedded and book-length, and discusses terminological variation, format, precision of locators, the order of index entries and assumption of user knowledge, knowledge of the compilers, and recommendations for further research. (59 references) (LRW)

Argues for precision (consistency) in citing, proposing an approach to citation analysis that ranks citation-signallers according to usefulness. Suggests that it is misguided to classify citation-signallers by the nature of the motivations inferred to underlie their use. (JKP)

Studies the relation between journal median citation age and the number of articles in the journal. Discusses statistical explanations, including graphs of clouds of points and the Central Limit Theorem; and considers explanations of regularities in informetrics, based on statistical, probabilistic, or informetric results. (Author/LRW)