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Self-citations, co-authorships and keywords: A new approach to scientists' field mobility?
Hellsten, Iina; Lambiotte, Renaud; Scharnhorst, Andrea et al.
2007In Scientometrics, 72 (3), p. 469-486
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Keywords :
citations; network
Abstract :
[en] This paper introduces a new approach to detecting scientists' field mobility by focusing on an author's self-citation network, and the co-authorships and keywords in self-citing articles. Contrary to much previous literature on self-citations, we will show that author's self-citation patterns reveal important information on the development and emergence of new research topics over time. More specifically, we will discuss self-citations as a means to detect scientists' field mobility. We introduce a network based definition of field mobility, using the Optimal Percolation Method (Lambiotte & Ausloos, 2005; 2006). The results of the study can be extended to selfcitation networks of groups of authors and, generally also for other types of networks.
Disciplines :
Library & information sciences
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Hellsten, Iina
Lambiotte, Renaud
Scharnhorst, Andrea
Ausloos, Marcel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique statistique appliquée et des matériaux
Language :
English
Title :
Self-citations, co-authorships and keywords: A new approach to scientists' field mobility?
Publication date :
September 2007
Journal title :
Scientometrics
ISSN :
0138-9130
eISSN :
1588-2861
Publisher :
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Volume :
72
Issue :
3
Pages :
469-486
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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