Scholarly network similarities: How bibliographic coupling networks, citation networks, cocitation networks, topical networks, coauthorship networks, and coword networks relate to each other

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1313-1326

  Yan, Erjia ^a   Ding, Ying ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bibliographic coupling; citation networks; co citation analysis; joint authorship; network analysis

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC COUPLINGS; CITATION NETWORKS; CO-CITATION NETWORKS; COAUTHORSHIP NETWORKS; COCITATION; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; TWO-DIMENSION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

EID: 84862278646     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22680     Document Type: Review

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