Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
In memory of Belver C. Griffith
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Relescope: an experiment in accelerating relationships
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The chasms of CSCW: a citation graph analysis of the CSCW conference
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The structure of Iranian chemistry research, 1990–2006: An author cocitation analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information and Organization
Home bias effect in the management literature
Scientometrics
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Many authors have posited a social component in citation, the consensus being that the citers and citees often have interpersonal as well as intellectual ties. Evidence for this belief has been rather meager, however, in part because social networks researchers have lacked bibliometric data (e.g., pairwise citation counts from online databases), and citation analysts have lacked sociometric data (e.g., pairwise measures of acquaintanceship). In 1997 Nazer extensively measured personal relationships and communication behaviors in what we call "Globenet," an international group of 16 researchers from seven disciplines that was established in 1993 to study human development. Since Globenet's membership is known, it was possible during 2002 to obtain citation records for all members in databases of the Institute for Scientific Information. This permitted examination of how members cited each other (intercited) in journal articles over the past three decades and in a 1999 book to which they all contributed. It was also possible to explore links between the intercitation data and the social and communication data. Using network-analytic techniques, we look at the growth of intercitation over time, the extent to which it follows disciplinary or inter-disciplinary lines, whether it covaries with degrees of acquaintanceship, whether it reflects Globenet's organizational structure, whether it is associated with particular in-group communication patterns, and whether it is related to the cocitation of Globenet members. Results show cocitation to be a powerful predictor of intercitation in the journal articles, while being an editor or co-author is an important predictor in the book. Intellectualties based on shared content did better as predictors than content-neutral socialties like friendship. However, interciters in Globenet communicated more than did noninterciters.