White W. "The contribution of Bibliometric methods to a theory of scientific communication" ASIST 2001: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 64TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 38, 2001 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIS

[Charles H. Davis]

Dear Quentin:

Ouch... you are one wicked dude!

   :-)

Cordially,

Charles
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Charles H. Davis, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, SLIS; Informatics
Indiana University at Bloomington
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> I am not in a position to comment on the quality of William White's
article,
> but I do wonder whether words like "ideation" and "instantiation"
add
> anything to the language, whether English or American.
>
> (Please do not take offence, that was not my intentionality!)
>
> Quentin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ASIS Special Interest Group on Metrics
> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield
> Sent: 10 July 2002 19:39
> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] White W. "The contribution of Bibliometric
methods
> to a theory of scientific communication" ASIST 2001: PROCEEDINGS OF
THE
> 64TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 38, 2001 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIST AN
>
>
> William White : whitew at scils.rutgers.edu
>
>
> Title      The contribution of Bibliometric methods to a theory of
>            scientific communication
> Author     White W
> Journal    ASIST 2001: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 64TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING,
>            VOL 38, 2001 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIST ANNUAL MEETING
>            38: 498-505 2001
>
>  Document type: Article  Language: English
>  Cited References: 32    Times Cited: 0
>
>
> Abstract:
> Some theoretical models of scientific communication suggest that
science may
> be fruitfully understood as a heterogeneous network of social actors
and
> ideational elements. The argument offered in this paper is that
bibliometric
> methods-in brief, the analysis of textual properties of the
artifacts of
> scholarly communication-provide the means for the empirical
application of
> this perspective to investigations of the formal communication
system in
> science. This paper emphasizes the conceptual-operational links
between key
> words as a measure of ideation and citations as a measure of
disciplinary
> affiliation. It argues that such links may be used to operationalize
the
> discursive positions occupied by scholarly articles, which may be
considered
> to be instantiations of the heterogeneous network of scientists and
their
> ideas. An important implication of this linkage is the potential for
a more
> satisfying theory of citations.
>
> KeyWords Plus:
> CITATION
>
> Addresses:
> White W, Rutgers State Univ, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA
> Rutgers State Univ, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA
>
> Publisher:
> INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD
>
> IDS Number:
> BU37V
>
>
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