Author bibliographic coupling analysis: A test based on a Chinese academic database |
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| Authors: | Ruimin Ma |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Management, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, PR China;2. Division for Development and Planning, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, PR China;1. School of Business Administration, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, R.S., 90010-460, Brazil;2. Prometeo Researcher, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, University of Cuenca, Ecuador;3. Graduate Program in Economics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, S.C., 88049-970, Brazil;1. University of West Bohemia, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Univerzitní 8, 30614 Plzeň, Czech Republic;2. Technical University of Ko?ice, Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence Letná 9, 04001 Ko?ice, Slovakia;1. École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, PO Box 6128, Downtown Station, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada;2. Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, PO Box 8888, Downtown Station, H3C 3P8 Montréal, Qc., Canada;1. School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China;2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;1. The University of Zabol, Iran;2. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran;3. Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia;4. Purdue University, Lafayette, IN 47907, United States |
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| Abstract: | The paper first introduces the basic problems of author bibliographic coupling including the relationship between author bibliographic coupling and document bibliographic coupling as well as the three calculation methods of author coupling strength, namely, simple method, minimum method and combined method. Next I choose a small sample of authors in Chinese library and information science (LIS) as the research objects to have a comparative analysis of three types of author coupling strength algorithms (the data source is from the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI)). The result shows that the minimum method is the most appropriate one to calculate the author coupling strength. Then a large sample of authors is chosen to analyze the intellectual structure of Chinese LIS. The result shows that author bibliographic coupling analysis (ABCA) can discover the intellectual structure of a discipline better. It is also found that compared with author cocitation analysis (ACA), ABCA has the advantage that it not only can discover the intellectual structure of a discipline more comprehensively and concretely but also can reflect the research frontier of the discipline. Finally, some practical problems that arise during this research are discussed. |
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