A new approach for detecting scientific specialties from raw cocitation networks

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 240-246

  Wallace, Matthew L ^a   Gingras, Yves ^a   Duhon, Russell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER SIZES; CO CITATIONS; CO-CITATION NETWORKS; EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS; LARGE NETWORKS; NEW APPROACHES; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES; SIMILARITY MEASURES; WEIGHTED NETWORKS;

EID: 60549092313     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20987     Document Type: Article

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