The dynamics of exchanges and references among scientific texts, and the autopoiesis of discursive knowledge

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-271

  Lucio Arias, Diana ^a   Leydesdorff, Loet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autopoiesis; Codification; Discursive knowledge; Intellectual organization; Probabilistic entropy; Self organization; Systems theory; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349137537     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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