Influential
Authors in Library and Information Science 1986-1996
An
All Author Co-citation Map
By Olle Persson, Inforsk, Dep of Sociology Umeå, SE-901 87 Umeå
Using the
Social Sciences Citation Index CDE editions 1986-1996 it was possible
to identify 7001 papers from 11 LIS-journals: Annual Review of Information
Science and Technology, Electronic Library, Information Processing & Management,
Information Technology and Libraries, Journal of Documentation, Journal
of Information Science, Journal of the American Society for Information
Science, Library & Information Science Research, Library Resources & Technical
Services, Program-Automated Library and Information Systems, Scientometrics.
All citations among the papers of these 11 journals were identified. Next
the 57 most cited authors were selected, cited by at least 30 papers.
The map below shows how they are co-cited. Circles are proportional to
number of citations, and the closer they get the more co-cited they are.
Lines and their thickness indicate co-citations.
Below the center we see mostly bibliometricians, distributionists to the
bottom left and people in science indicators and co-citation analysis
at the bottom right. Moving up we find the information retrieval cluster
at the center and on the right side a few authors in information seeking.
See also: White, Howard D., and Katherine W. McCain. (1998). Visualizing
a Discipline: An Author Co-citation Analysis of Information Science, 19721995.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49: 327-355.
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