Tang R. "Visualizing interdisciplinary citations to and from information and library science publications" EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PROCEEDINGS - 972-977, 2004

[Eugene Garfield]

Rong Tang : tang at cua.edu


TITLE  : Visualizing interdisciplinary citations to and from information and
         library science publications
AUTHOR : Tang R

SOURCE : EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION,
PROCEEDINGS - Editors: Banissi E, Borner K, Chen C, Dastbaz M, Clapworthy G,
Faiola A, Izquierdo E, Maple C, Roberts J, Moore C, Ursyn A, Zhang JJ
IEEE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - PROCEEDINGS
972-977, 2004


Document Type: Article     Language: English     Cited References: 4

Conference Information:
8th International Conference on Information Visualisation
London, ENGLAND, JUL 14-16, 2004

Abstract:
Empirical investigations of citations to and from 150 journal articles
published in the field of Information and Library Science (ILS) has enabled
cross-mapping of the interdisciplinary evolution of the field. The
publications were randomly drawn in six years between 1975 and 2000, with 25
articles each from the selected years. ANOVA tests reveal that although raw
counts of self- and extradisciplinary- citations are not significantly
different by year, they are different depending on whether it is from or to
ILS. Nearly 30 disciplines hold mutual citations with ILS, and Computer
Science, Communication, Management Science, Education, and Psychology are
among those highly impact disciplines. Visualization further depicts the
clustering of the citing and cited disciplines. In general out-degree
citations contain richer set of nodes than those of in-degree, but overall,
the mapping of the interdisciplinary scope of the ILS field provides
convincing evidence for the interdisiciplinary nature of Library and
Information Science.

Addresses:
Tang R, Catholic Univ Amer, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Washington, DC 20064 USA
Catholic Univ Amer, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Washington, DC 20064 USA

Publisher:
IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA
90720-1264 USA

IDS Number:
BAQ15

ISSN:
1093-9547

ISBN:
0-7695-2177-0

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BRACKEN JK     COLL RES LIBR       50           665      1989
BROADUS RN     INT SOC SCI J       23           236      1971
BUTTLAR L      LIBR INFORM SCI RES 21           227      1999
PERITZ BC      LIB RES             3             55      1981