Epistemic communities: Description and hierarchic categorization

Mathematical Population Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-130

  Roth, Camille ^a   Bourgine, Paul ^a  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

Applied epistemology; Community representation and categorization; Knowledge discovery in databases; Scientometrics; Social complex systems

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 27844537881     PISSN: 08898480     EISSN: 1547724X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08898480590931404     Document Type: Review

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