Studying author affiliations in journals

[Mari Davis]

A study published in  by Davis, Wilson & Hood provides information on
institutional affiliations of authors of papers from 1991-95 in
Ophthalmology and in Optics - see Table 6 on p. 408. This study does not
addressing a specific journals but the data are field specific limited to
the ISI-selected set of journals for each of these fields. However, the
affiliations were categorised by type rather than by academic disciplines.

Reference: Davis M, Wilson CS, Hood WW. Ophthalmology and Optics: an
informetric study of Australia's contribution to fields in the Vision
Science domain, 1991-95. Scientometrics v.46, 1999: 399-416.

Mari Davis PhD

John Metcalfe Research Fellow
BIRG, Bibliometric & Informetric Research Group
The University of New South Wales
Quadrangle Level 2
Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
m.davis at unsw.edu.au
http://birg.web.unsw.edu.au/
Tel: +61 2 9385 7127
Fax: +61 2 9662 4061



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I am looking for some representative examples of papers/studies where the
researcher has studied the institutional affiliation of authors publishing
in specific journals, in an effort to determine the mix of academic
disciplines contributing to the journal.

Thanks,

Bernie Sloan

Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO

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