Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Visualizing a discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Visualizing science by citation mapping
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
IV '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
Towards all-author co-citation analysis
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Informetrics
Towards mapping library and information science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Informetrics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information science during the first decade of the web: An enriched author cocitation analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visualizing and mapping the intellectual structure of information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
SciMAT: A new science mapping analysis software tool
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Author name disambiguation: What difference does it make in author-based citation analysis?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Author cocitation analysis (ACA) has frequently been applied over the last two decades for mapping the intellectual structure of a research field as represented by its authors. However, what is mapped in ACA is actually the structure of intellectual influences on a research field as perceived by its active authors. In this exploratory paper, by contrast, we introduce author bibliographic-coupling analysis (ABCA) as a method to map the research activities of active authors themselves for a more realistic picture of the current state of research in a field. We choose the information science (IS) field and study its intellectual structure both in terms of current research activities as seen from ABCA and in terms of intellectual influences on its research as shown from ACA. We examine how these two aspects of the intellectual structure of the IS field are related, and how they both developed during the “first decade of the Web,” 1996–2005. We find that these two citation-based author-mapping methods complement each other, and that, in combination, they provide a more comprehensive view of the intellectual structure of the IS field than either of them can provide on its own. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.