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Peer reviewedDiodato, Virgil; Gandt, Gretchen – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Describes a study that examined back of book indexes produced by 37 authors and 27 nonauthors to see whether differences between the 2 groups of indexers could be discerned by counting the occurrence of 3 characteristics in their indexes: number of index pages, modified headings, and cross-reference use. (27 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Authors, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Indexes
Peer reviewedHolmstrom, J. Edwin – Journal of Documentation, 1975
Outlines principles and methods for indexing a series of contributions from many authors treating diverse topics. (PF)
Descriptors: Authors, Indexing, Publishing Industry, Scholarly Journals
Peer reviewedRasheed, Muhammad Abdur – International Library Review, 1989
Describes a study that compared indexing terms suggested by authors of articles in "The American Journal of the Medical Science" and indexing terms assigned to the same articles in MEDLARS. Case studies are used to examine the differences between author and indexer indexing. (CLB)
Descriptors: Authors, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Indexing
Peer reviewedDiodato, Virgil P. – Special Libraries, 1981
Discusses the effectiveness of using author-supplied indexing to increase subject control in information retrieval, and describes a study which compared author indexing for articles published in "American Mathematical Society" journals to indexing of the same articles by an editor of "Mathematical Reviews." Nine references are…
Descriptors: Authors, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedMarion, Linda S.; McCain, Katherine W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Explores the intellectual subject structure and research themes in software engineering through the identification and analysis of a core journal literature via two expert perspectives: the author, through cocitation analysis; and the indexer, through subject terms selected to facilitate retrieval. Topics include cluster analysis, multidimensional…
Descriptors: Authors, Citation Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Computer Software Development
