The synthesis of specialty narratives from co-citation clusters
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Software engineering concepts
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of Systems and Software
Tiered citation and measures of document similarity
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
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
The determinants of visibility of software engineering researchers
Journal of Systems and Software
Software Engineering
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Softw
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Softw
Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution
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Software Engineering: Experience and Convictions
Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the European Cooperation in Informatics on Trends in Information Processing Systems
ICSE '79 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Software engineering
An analysis of research in computing disciplines
Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
The structure of Iranian chemistry research, 1990–2006: An author cocitation analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Assessing Obliteration by Incorporation: Issues and Caveats
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Citation choice and innovation in science studies
Scientometrics
The influence of Taylor's paper, Question-Negotiation and Information-Seeking in Libraries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Citation context analysis is used to demonstrate the diversity of concept symbols that a book-length publication can represent and the diffusion of influence of these concepts over time and across scholarly disciplines. A content analysis of 574 citation contexts from 497 journal articles citing an edition of Frederick P. Brooks, Jr's The Mythical Man-Month (MMM) over the period 1975-1999 showed that MMM represents a variety of different concepts and is cited in a wide range of subject areas. Over time, a high level of interest in MMM spread from software engineering and computer science to management and information systems, with different areas showing different patterns of focus on concepts within the work. 'Brooks' Law' (the 'mythical man-month' or 'adding more people to a late project makes it later'), accounted for less than 30% of the classified citation contexts. The findings contribute to our understanding of the diffusion of ideas in scholarly communication, and the diversity that can underlie the creation of a reference in a scholarly publication.