Hook, PA (Hook, Peter A.) Visualizing the topic space of the united states supreme court PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTL CONF. OF THE ISSI, VOLS I AND II 387-396, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

Email address: pahook at indiana.edu

Author(s): Hook, PA (Hook, Peter A.) 

Title: Visualizing the topic space of the united states supreme court 

Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF 

Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 
387-396, 2007 

Language: English 
Document Type: Article 

Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International-
Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics 

Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 

Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN 

Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & 
Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, 
Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ 
Carlos III Madrid 

Author Keywords: domain maps; visualizations; united states supreme court; 
law; political science; westlaw 

KeyWords Plus: CITATION INDEXES; LAW; SCIENCE 

Abstract: This article describes the creation of several domain maps based 
on the topic space of opinions issued by the United States Supreme Court. 
Topics assigned by West Publishing were harvested off of the Westlaw 
database and visualized using Principal Components Analysis (PCA), 
Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), and graph visualization software (Pajek). 
Peculiar topic adjacencies were noted and attributed to the unique nature 
of cases argued at the level of the United States Supreme Court. The work 
is contextualized throughout by the author's desire to create a rigorous 
base map on which to layer additional data for teaching purposes. 

Addresses: Indiana Univ, Sch Law, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA. 


Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI 
Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 
2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM 

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