Terrorism Dissertations and the Evolution of a Specialty: An Analysis of Meta-Information

Terrorism and Political Violence

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-150

  Gordon, Avishag ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 0033268838     PISSN: 09546553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09546559908427510     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Edna F. Reid, 'An Analysis of Terrorism Literature: A Bibliographic and Content Analysis Study', Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California, May 1983, p.225.
2. Sydney J. Pierce, 'Subject, Disciplines and the Concept of Authority', Library and Information Science Research 13 (1991) p.29.
3. Edna O. F. Reid, 'Terrorism Research and the Diffusion of Ideas', Knowledge and Policy: An International Joumal of Knowledge Transfer and Utilization 6/1 (Spring 1993) p.25.
4. Ibid, pp.29-30.
5. Russell G. Hamilton, 'On the Way to Professorate: The Dissertation', New Directions for the Teaching and Learning 54 (Summer 1993) p.47.
6. M.P. Stija, 'Sources of Indian Library and Information Science', LIBRI 39 (1989) p.72.
7. Reid (note 1).
8. Ibid., p.215.
9. Edna O.F. Reid, 'Evolution of a Body of Knowledge: An Analysis of Terrorism Research', Information Processing and Management 33/1 (1997) p.96.
10. Martin Guntau and Hubert Laitko, 'On the Origin and Nature of Scientific Disciplines', in W.R. Woodward and R.S. Cohen (eds), World View and Scientific Disciplines Formation (1991) pp.17-28.
11. Ibid.
12. Avishag Gordon, 'The Spread of Terrorism Publications: A Database Analysis', Research Note, Terrorism and Political Violence 10/4 (Winter 1998) pp.192-6.
13. Between 1988 and 1998 the number of articles about terrorism published in various journals grew in absolute numbers by only 42 per cent.
14. Meta-information is the bibliographic data describing the item being analyzed.
15. 'False drops' are irrelevant records in the retrieval set that do, however, have some remote or indirect relation to the set. Bruce Shuman, 'One False Drop Deserves Another: File Selection as a Means of Increasing Precision in Online Searches', Proceedings of the National Online Meeting (1992) p.345.
16. Relevance can be calculated in the following manner: the number of 'false drops' = 40; the total number of terrorism items = 262; thus, the percentage of 'false drops' is 40/262 = 15%. The percentage of relevant items, therefore, is 100-15 = 85%.
17. Tony Becher, Academic Tribes and Territories (SRHG and Open University Press 1991) p.128.
18. J.M. McDowell, 'Obsolescence of Knowledge and Career Publications Profiles', American Economic Review 72/4, pp.752-68.