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McCain, Katherine W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
Author cocitation analysis was used to investigate changes in intellectual structure of macroeconomics over two consecutive time periods, 1972-1977 and 1978-1983. Profile analysis, nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and clustering techniques were used to create two-dimensional maps displaying changing relationships among 41 authors as perceived…
Descriptors: Authors, Citations (References), Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping
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Yerkey, A. Neil – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
This study attempts to analyze descriptors taken from subject categories in ERIC thesaurus and used as search terms on CROSS database Bibliographic Retrieval Services. An expectation ratio was computed and cluster analysis was conducted to discover subject relationships among databases. A list of databases retrieved and 12 references are appended.…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis