How to normalize cooccurrence data? An analysis of some well-known similarity measures

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1635-1651

  Van Eck, Nées Jan ^a   Waltman, Ludo ^b  

^a Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-OCCURRENCE; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; INCLUSION INDEX; JACCARD INDEX; PROBABILISTIC MEASURES; SCIENTOMETRIC; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 67650930659     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21075     Document Type: Article

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