The Interface between the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index

David Goodman dgoodman at PRINCETON.EDU
Fri Feb 10 18:34:48 EST 2006


This has been a nuisance to users for years,
especially for bibliometric work where it means everything
has to be done twice--
and I hope your article will encourage them to
combine them. Just as they combine WoK.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
and formerly
Princeton University Library

dgoodman at princeton.edu



Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
and formerly
Princeton University Library

dgoodman at liu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Loet Leydesdorff <loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET>
Date: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:50 am
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] The Interface between the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU

> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
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> Mapping  <http://www.leydesdorff.net/sci_sosci/index.htm>
> Interdisciplinarity at the Interfaces between
>
> the  <http://www.leydesdorff.net/sci_sosci/index.htm> Science
> Citation Index
> and the Social Science Citation Index
>
> <http://www.leydesdorff.net/sci_sosci/sci+sosci.pdf> pdf-version
>
>
>
> The two Journal Citation Reports of the Science Citation Index
> 2004 and the
> Social Science Citation Index 2004 were combined in order to
> analyze and map
> journals and specialties at the edges and in the overlap between
> the two
> databases. For journals which belong to the overlap (e.g.,
> Scientometrics),the merger mainly enriches our insight into  the
> structure which can be
> obtained from the two databases separately; but in the case of
> scientificjournals which are more marginal in either database, the
> combination can
> provide a new perspective on the position and function of these
> journals(e.g., Environment and Planning B-Planning and Design).
> The combined
> database additionally enables us to map citation environments in
> terms of
> the various specialties comprehensively. Using the vector-space model,
> visualizations are provided for specialties that are parts of the
> overlap(information science, science & technology studies). On the
> basis of the
> resulting visualizations, "betweenness"-a measure from social network
> analysis-is suggested as an indicator for measuring the
> interdisciplinarityof journals.
>
>
> ** apologies for cross-postings
>
>  _____
>
> Loet Leydesdorff
> Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
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>
> <http://www.leydesdorff.net/knbecon> The Knowledge-Based Economy:
> Modeled,Measured, and Simulated
> <http://www.universal-
> publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956>The Self-
> Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society;
> <http://www.universal-
> publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126816>The Challenge
> of Scientometrics
>
>
>
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