Possible inaccuracies occurring in citation analysis
Journal of Information Science
The duality of informetric systems with applications to the empirical laws
Journal of Information Science
Relations between continuous versions of bibliometric laws
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Term and citation retrieval: a field study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Citation mining: integrating text mining and bibliometrics for research user profiling
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Delineating the citation impact of scientific discoveries
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Competence maps using agglomerative hierarchical clustering
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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Relevance of bibliometric indicators on scientific areas critically depends on the quality of their delineation. Macro-level studies, often based on a selected list of journals, accept a high degree of fuzziness. Micro-level studies rely on sets of individual articles in order to reduce noise and enhance precision of retrieval. The most usual information retrieval process is based on lexical queries with various levels of sophistication. In the experiment on Nanosciences reported here, this process was used as a first step, to delineate a 'seed' of literature. It has strong limitations, especially for emerging or transversal fields. In a second step, the alternative approach of citation linkages, was used to expand the bibliography starting from lexical seed. The extension process presented is ruled by three parameters, two deal with the cited side (threshold on citation score, and specificity towards the field), one with the citing side (threshold on the number of relevant references) interplaying in the 'referencing structure' function (RSF) introduced in a previous work. This type of combination proves effective for delineating the transversal field of Nanosciences. Further improvements of the method are discussed.