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Griffith, Belver C.; Small, Henry G. – 1983
A clustering experiment applied co-citation analysis to a cumulation (1972-1974) of the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) tapes in order to outline a citation structure for the social and behavioral sciences. Co-citation analysis is a new technique that establishes a link between two older documents and a crude metric of the strength of that…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Bibliographic Coupling, Citations (References), Cluster Grouping
Peer reviewedGriffith, Belver C.; Servi, Patricia N. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1980
Illustrates a method to divide large citation database files into clusters of journals without requiring the use of arbitrary starting points. Results are discussed relative to biomedical literature. (Author/FM)
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Cluster Grouping, Databases
Peer reviewedWhite, Howard D.; Griffith, Belver C. – Information Processing and Management, 1987
Describes study that compared and judged the quality of subject indexing in online bibliographic databases. Documents from medical behavioral science literature are used with terms drawn from MEDLINE, PsychINFO, BIOSIS, and Excerpta Medica. Comparative statistics are presented on how each database links related documents and discriminates among…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Citation Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Comparative Analysis
