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Peer reviewedBayer, Alan E.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Discusses the intellectual structure of the sciences and describes a study that was conducted to test the usefulness of author cocitation analysis for empirically deriving groupings of intellectual leaders in the field of sociology. Results are contrasted with traditional subjective methods of codification of a field. (35 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Authors, Citation Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Codification
