Appropriate similarity measures for author co-citation analysis

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1653-1661

  Van Eck, Nees Jan ^a   Waltman, Ludo ^a  

^a Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS;

CO-CITATION; PEARSON CORRELATIONS; SIMILARITY MEASURES; SIMILARITY MEASURING; STATISTICAL INFERENCES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 48849114713     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20872     Document Type: Article

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