Open AccessGene's worlds: Comparing Eugene Garfield's co‐citation and tri‐citation image PFNets over time
Author(s) -
McCain Katherine W.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2008.1450450353
Subject(s) - citation , co citation , context (archaeology) , citation analysis , information retrieval , image (mathematics) , computer science , data science , history , library science , artificial intelligence , archaeology
The structure of Eugene Garfield's Citation Image over two time periods (1978–87 and 19982007) is explored using both “standard” Author Co‐citation Analysis and Tri‐citation Analysis‐ co‐citation with Garfield included as a third cited author. A comparison of PFNets for each decade and mapping approach shows that tri‐citation can bring out more specific and context‐relevant author relationships than co‐citation that is based on all articles citing any pair of Citation Image authors.