Today, June 23 1999, I found 91 papers in Social Sciences Citation Index that have cited publications authored by me. The high impact papers have been co-authored with others. The most cited paper was a study of country co-authorship written by Terttu Luukkonen, Gunnar Sivertsen and myself. The next one included Robert Tijssen as a fourth co-author and was also about co-authorship analysis.

The citations to all my publications comes from 134 authors excluding myself. The number of self-citations is 8 out of 91 papers which reduces my impact somewhat. Well, not so bad!?

A more flattering picture comes up when a first-author-co-citation map is made on the basis of the 91 citing papers. The map below brings my good old friend Terttu into the center of the map at some distance from myself. That distance is mostly an artifact, since most of the time I am in fact co-cited with Luukkonen. This analysis only takes the cited first-author which tends to drift us apart. The other names are big stars of the field, which tells the reader that I belong to the bibliometric territory.

..and more precisely, most of the papers citing me is about national scientific indicators and collaboration. I had hoped to make more impact in the field of mapping, but that will have to wait as it seems.