CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear Jesper,  

If researchers normally are active in many different journals covering 15-20
different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI codes for
definition of specialties? 

Using the ISI codes for the definition of specialties is not a good idea.
The categories have no analytical basis. They are ad hoc, as our colleagues
at ISI admit.  I found no strong relations between the subject categories
and principal components in the citation matrix, for example, in: 

Can Scientific Journals be Classified in terms of Aggregated Journal-Journal
Citation Relations using the Journal Citation Reports? Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(5) (2006)
601-613. 

With best wishes, 

Loet

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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
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