Correspondence factor analysis of the publication patterns of 48 countries over the period 1981–1992
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Visualizing a discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Software engineering as seen through its research literature: a study in co-word analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Author cocitation analysis and Pearson's r
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A classification of author co-citations: definitions and search strategies
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Author cocitation analysis and Pearson's r
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Part II: Information seeking research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Part II: Information seeking research
Letter to the editor: Pearson's r and author cocitation analysis: a commentary on the controversy
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Similarity measures, author cocitation analysis, and information theory: Brief Communication
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visualizing linguistic and cultural differences using Web co-link data: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Support vector machines for dyadic data
Neural Computation
Towards all-author co-citation analysis
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Informetrics
Visualization of the citation impact environments of scientific journals: An online mapping exercise
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Clustering methodologies for identifying country core competencies
Journal of Information Science
Can citation analysis of web publications better detect research fronts?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Betweenness centrality as an indicator of the interdisciplinarity of scientific journals
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Caveats for the use of citation indicators in research and journal evaluations
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Co-word analysis using the Chinese character set
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Using field cocitation analysis to assess reciprocal and shared impact of LIS-MIS fields
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Patent classifications as indicators of intellectual organization
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Appropriate similarity measures for author co-citation analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Short communication: Recommendation based on rational inferences in collaborative filtering
Knowledge-Based Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal clustering through interlocking editorship information
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Visualizing evolving networks: minimum spanning trees versus pathfinder networks
INFOVIS'03 Proceedings of the Ninth annual IEEE conference on Information visualization
New approach to the visualization of international scientific collaboration
Information Visualization
Measuring CMOT's intellectual structure and its development
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
The intellectual development of the technology acceptance model: A co-citation analysis
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The dynamic features of delicious, flickr, and YouTube
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Bibliometric perspectives on medical innovation using the medical subject Headings of PubMed
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Effective Service Composition in Large Scale Service Market: An Empirical Evidence Enhanced Approach
International Journal of Web Services Research
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
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Author cocitation analysis (ACA), a special type of cocitation analysis, was introduced by White and Griffith in 1981. This technique is used to analyze the intellectual structure of a given scientific field. In 1990, McCain published a technical overview that has been largely adopted as a standard. Here, McCain notes that Pearson's correlation coefficient (Pearson's r) is often used as a similarity measure in ACA and presents some advantages of its use. The present article criticizes the use of Pearson's r in ACA and sets forth two natural requirements that a similarity measure applied in ACA should satisfy. It is shown that Pearson's r does not satisfy these requirements. Real and hypothetical data are used in order to obtain counterexamples to both requirements. It is concluded that Pearson's r is probably not an optimal choice of a similarity measure in ACA. Still, further empirical research is needed to show if, and in that case to what extent, the use of similarity measures in ACA that fulfill these requirements would lead to objectively better results In full-scale studies. Further, problems related to incomplete cocitation matrices are discussed.