ABS: Alvarez, Equating research production in different scientific fields

[Gretchen Whitney]

pedro alvarez  palvarez at unex.es


PT J
AU Alvarez, P
   Pulgarin, A
TI Equating research production in different scientific fields
SO INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
NR 21
C1 Univ Extremadura, Serv Documentat, Avd Elvas S-N, E-06071
   Badajoz, Spain.
   Univ Extremadura, Fac Management, E-06071 Badajoz, Spain.
   Univ Extremadura, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, E-06071 Badajoz, Spain.
ID RASCH MODEL; CITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNALS; IMPACT
AB Diffusion in a scientific field is regarded as the
   dissemination of knowledge, channeled through citations that
   are distributed over different periods of time and propagated
   by means of scientific journals. Here it is considered to be a
   latent variable defined by a particular Set of items (the
   citations made in different fields) and the Quantum Measurement
   technique is used as an instrument for measuring that variable
   on an objective scale. The different scientific fields thereby
   equiparated according to their diffusion. The citations
   generated by articles belonging to these fields were collected
   from the SCI/SSCI JCR of ISI (Science Citation Index/Social
   Science Citation Index Journal Citation Reports of Institute
   for Scientific Information). The final result is an equivalence
   table of citations between the areas of research. (C) 1998
   Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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BP 465
EP 470
PG 6
JI Inf. Process. Manage.
PY 1998
PD JUL
VL 34
IS 4
GA 114LC
RP Pulgarin A
   Univ Extremadura, Serv Documentat, Avd Elvas S-N, E-06071 Badajoz, Spain.
J9 INFORM PROCESS MANAGE
UT ISI:000075610100007
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