Similarity measures in scientometric research: The Jaccard index versus Salton's cosine formula

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 315-318

  Hamers, Lieve ^a   Hemeryck, Yves ^a   Herweyers, Guido ^a   Janssen, Marc ^a   Keters, Hans ^a   Rousseau, Ronald ^a   Vanhoutte, André ^a  

^a Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--VECTORS;

CO-CITATION CLUSTER ANALYSIS; JACCARD INDEX; SALTONS COSINE FORMULA;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

JACCARD INDEX; JACCARD'S INDEX; NUMERICAL VALUES; SCIENTOMETRIC; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

EID: 0024904643     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4573(89)90048-4     Document Type: Article

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