van den Besselaar "Empirical evidence of self-organization?" JASIST 54(1):87-90, 2003

[Eugene Garfield]

Peter van dan Besselaar :   peter.van.den.besselaar at niwi.knaw.nl


Title       Empirical evidence of self-organization?
Author      van den Besselaar P
Journal     JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION
            SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY  54 (1): 87-90 JAN 1 2003

 Document type: Article  Language: English
 Cited References: 6     Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
In a recent paper in this journal, Loet Leydesdorff and Gaston Heimeriks
(2001, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, 52, 1262-1294.) argue that biotechnology develops in a
self-organizational mode, through interaction between the intellectual
structure and the institutional network of  the research field. This claim
is empirically supported by a multivariate analysis of documents from core
biotechnology journals. One unexpected finding in this paper is the
relationship between the title words of documents and the region of their
origin. This claim requires examination because, as will be shown, it seems
to be an artifact of the method used. If this is so, it undermines the
authors' theoretical claim that the production of knowledge is a
self-organizing process.

Addresses:
van den Besselaar P, Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci NIWI KNAW, Dept
Social Sci, POB 95110, NL-1000 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands
Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci NIWI KNAW, Dept Social Sci, NL-1000 HC
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Publisher:
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN

IDS Number:
626ZQ

ISSN:
1532-2882


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