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Author Cocitation Analysis: Quantitative Methods for Mapping the Intellectual Structure of an Academic Discipline

Sean B. Eom (Southeast Missouri State University, USA)
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Release Date: November, 2008 | Copyright: © 2009 | Pages: 368

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase
ISBN13: 9781599047386
EISBN13: 9781599047409
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-738-6

Description:

Over the past 80 years, the way that citation frequency was counted and analyzed changed dramatically from the early manual transcribing and statistical computation of citation data to computer-based citation data creation and its manipulation.

Author Cocitation Analysis: Quantitative Methods for Mapping the Intellectual Structure of an Academic Discipline provides a blueprint for researchers to follow in a wide variety of investigations. Pertinent to faculty, researchers, and graduate students in any academic field, this book introduces an alternative approach to conducting author cocitation analysis (ACA) without relying on commercial citation databases.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • ACA online data retrieval
  • Author cocitation analysis procedures
  • Author cocitation mapping
  • Bibliometrics and informetrics
  • Building custom databases
  • Cocitation counts generation system
  • Decision support systems research
  • Diagonal values in ACA
  • Distance and cluster procedures
  • Intellectual structure mapping of an academic discipline
  • Multidimensional scaling
  • Principal Component Analysis

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This book introduces an alternative approach to conducting author cocitation analysis (ACA) without relying on commercial citation databases such as index ISI citation index.

– Sean B. Eom, Southeast Missouri State University, USA

This book describes the quantitative methods of cocitation analysis for students and researchers for almost any academic discipline, with Eom offering tutorials on principle component analysis, building custom databases.

– Book News Inc. (February 2009)

Sean B. Eom is a professor of management information systems (MIS) and had been appointed as a Copper dome Faculty Fellow in Research at the Harrison College of Business of Southeast Missouri State University during the academic years 1994-1996 and 1998-2000. In recognition of his continuing research contributions to the information systems area, he is listed as one of outstanding intellectuals in the first edition of 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, Top 100 Educators 2005, Who's Who in American Education, and 59th Edition of Marquis Who's Who in America.

He received his PhD degree in management science from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (1985). His other degrees are from the University of South Carolina at Columbia (MS in international business), Seoul National University (MBA in International Management), and Korea University (BA).

His research areas include decision support systems (DSS), expert systems, and global information systems management. He is the author/editor of six books including Decision Support Systems Research (1970-1999): A Cumulative Tradition and Reference Disciplines, Author Cocitation Analysis using Custom Bibliographical Databases: An Introduction to the SAS systems, Inter-Organizational Information Systems in the Internet Age, and Encyclopedia of Information Systems. He has published more than 50 refereed journal articles and 60 articles in encyclopedia, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

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