Citations among communication journals and other disciplines: a network analysis.

Autor/inn/en	Barnett, George A.; Huh, Catherine; Kim, Youngju; Park, Han Woo
Titel	Citations among communication journals and other disciplines: a network analysis.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2011) 2, S.449-469 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-011-0381-2
Schlagwörter	Citation analysis; Network analysis; Communication
Abstract	Abstract This article describes the results of a network analysis based on the citation among Communication journals and those academic disciplines that are cited by those journals labeled as “Communication” by the Web of Science. The results indicate that the journals indexed solely as Communication rather than those also tagged as another social science are more central in the citation network. Further, a cluster analysis of the cited disciplines revealed three groupings, a micro psychological cluster, a macro socio-political group and a woman’s studies clique. A two-mode network analysis found that the most central Communication journals cited multiple clusters, while the peripheral journals cited only one, suggesting that the structure of influence on the field of Communication is more complex than suggested by Park and Leydesdorff (Scientometrics 81(1):157–175, 2009). Also, the results indicate that the macro cluster is about twice as influential as the micro cluster, rather than as Park and Leydesdorff suggest that Psychology is the discipline’s primary influence.
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Update	2023/2/05