Requirements for a cocitation similarity measure, with special reference to Pearson's correlation coefficient

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 550-560

  Ahlgren, Per ^a   Jarneving, Bo ^a   Rousseau, Ronald ^b  

^a Swedish School of Library and Information Science   (Sweden)

^b Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HYPOTHETICAL DATA;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EID: 0037394354     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10242     Document Type: Article

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