Garfield E. "Historiographic mapping of knowledge domains literature" Journal of Information Science 30(2): 119-145, 2004

[Eugene Garfield]

Eugene Garfield : garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu

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TITLE:          Historiographic mapping of knowledge domains literature
                (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Garfield, E
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 30 (2). 2004. p.119-145
                SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON

SEARCH TERM(S):  GARFIELD E  rauth; ZUCKERMAN H  rauth;
                 ISI  rp_organization,rp_suborganization,rs_organization,r
                 s_suborganization;
                 GARFIELD E         P ASIST ANNU           39:14    2002;
                 GARFIELD E         J AM SOC INF SCI TEC   54:400   2003;
                 GARFIELD E  primaryauthor,author

KEYWORDS:       mapping; knowledge domains; small world concept; DNA
                structure; citation analysis; historiography; information
                visualization; software; HistCite
KEYWORDS+:       SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

ABSTRACT:       To better understand the topic of this colloquium, we
have created a series of databases related to knowledge domains (dynamic
systems [small world/Milgram], information visualization [Tufte], co-
citation [Small], bibliographic coupling [Kessler], and scientometrics
[Scientometrics]). I have used a software package called HistCite(TM)
which generates chronological maps of subject (topical) collections
resulting from searches of the ISI Web of Science(R) or ISI citation
indexes (SCI, SSCI, and/or AHCI) on CD-ROM. When a marked list is created
on WoS, an export file is created which contains all cited references for
each source document captured. These bibliographic collections, saved as
ASCII files, are processed by HistCite in order to generate chronological
and other tables as well as historiographs which highlight the most-cited
works in and outside the collection. HistCite also includes a module for
detecting and editing errors or variations in cited references as well as
a vocabulary analyzer which generates both ranked word lists and word
pairs used in the collection. Ideally the system will be used to help the
searcher quickly identify the most significant work on a topic and trace
its year-by-year historical development. In addition to the collections
mentioned above, historiographs based on collections of papers that cite
the Watson-Crick 1953 classic paper identifying the helical structure of
DNA were created. Both year-by-year as well as month-by-month displays of
papers from 1953 to 1958 were necessary to highlight the publication
activity of those years.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Garfield, ISI, 3501 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA