Languages & Linguistics
Citation Analysis
Citation analysis is a method used to evaluate the impact and influence of scholarly works by examining the frequency and patterns of their citations in other publications. It is a valuable tool for researchers in identifying key works and authors in a particular field, as well as tracking the evolution of ideas and trends over time.
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- Dangzhi Zhao, Andreas Strotmann(Authors)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Springer(Publisher)
1 CHAPTER 1 Foundations of Citation Analysis 1.1 INTRODUCTION Citation Analysis is a well-known technique that has long been applied in a variety of research fields to study, among others, knowledge flows, the diffusion of ideas, intellectual structures of science, relevance of information resources, and evaluation of researchers and research institutions. Among the research fields that have employed Citation Analysis methods, sociology, history of science, library and information science, management science, and research policy are the most prominent. Together with citation indexing and citation linking, Citation Analysis also provides the foundations for effective information retrieval that, applied to web links, was at the core of the success of Google’s search engine. Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in Citation Analysis to help address various re- search, management, or information service issues such as university rankings, research evaluation, and knowledge domain visualization. This renewed interest is a result of the increasingly available digital citation data and computer power that have made large-scale Citation Analysis studies possi- ble, and has resulted in many exciting new developments in data sources, as well as techniques and tools for citation data collection, analysis, and visualization. This chapter introduces the concepts of citation and Citation Analysis, examines the assump- tions underlying Citation Analysis, and provides an overview of what can be done with citation anal- ysis (and why), as well as a discussion of strengths and weaknesses of Citation Analysis and cautions required when applying Citation Analysis. Based on this overview, the scope and structure of this book are then discussed at the end of this chapter. 1.2 WHAT IS Citation Analysis? The reference list in a research paper is an essential part of the paper.
eBook - PDF- Roel Popping(Author)
- 2000(Publication Date)
- SAGE Publications Ltd(Publisher)
9 Relation to linguistics and information retrieval The cooperation between the fields of text analysis on the one hand, and linguistics and info n nation retrieval on the other is not that close. There is certainly no systematic cooperation. Nevertheless, these are both fields of research that are closely related to text analysis. This includes also qualitative research. In this chapter linguistics and info n nation retrieval are shortly introduced and related to text analysis. The places where text analysis might benefit from each of the two will be indicated. Anyway, I believe that parsers are very useful in preparing a text for analysis. Several issues mentioned in this chapter have been discussed in previous chapters, but from another point of view. When the context in which text is uttered is also the subject of the investigation, more info n nation than just the text is needed. Such info n natio n might be collected from interviews or observation. Therefore some remarks are made about these issues at the end of the chapter. Linguistics The following citation is very illustrative for the relation between text analysis and linguistics: ' ''Content analysis is a fon n of language analysis and language analysis usually is a fon n of linguistics. The word automated refers to the computer as a tool in any kind of human activity. Nevertheless, the word 'automated content analysis' however does not refer to computational linguis-tics' (Boot, 1978). First general remarks on linguistics will be made, after that the relevance for text analysis is emphasized. Linguistics is a collective noun for several kinds of research dealing with language. Strictly speaking linguists analyse sentences within a language. Pure linguists even neglect all questions about pieces of language bigger than a single sentence. Language is a system of rules referring to sounds and sound symbols that is followed by humans in communicating ideas, feelings, desires, and so on.
eBook - PDFCorpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis
Jane Austen and her Contemporaries
- Bettina Fischer-Starcke(Author)
- 2010(Publication Date)
- Continuum(Publisher)
(95) Culler emphasizes not only the necessity of analysing linguistic patterns, but also the reader’s textual competence as meaning-creating elements in 48 Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis a text. However, what Culler does not seem to notice is that what he describes as subjective impressions are in fact linguistic patterns which are decoded in a linguistic analysis. This is, for example, the case with (1) genre conven-tions which he calls ‘expectations about the forms of literary organization, implicit models of literary structures’ (1975: 95) and (2) developing and testing hypotheses on language. As in literary criticism, linguistics discusses the meanings of a text by interpreting the linguistic data on the text. It is the kind of data that is interpreted and the techniques used to generate the data which distinguish linguistics and literary criticism. Taking this into account, Culler calls for an analysis of linguistic patterns, that is, of recurrence, which is a stylistic approach to text analysis. He proposes an analysis of literature which looks at the text, that is, at parole and its syntagmatic realizations, the intertext and the reader’s textual competence. Culler also argues that a literary text can only be understood properly in the context of other literary works. Intertextual references, which are based on this context, contribute to the meaning of the work, even though they might not be noticed by its receiver. Therefore, a structuralist poetics must enquire what knowledge must be postulated to account for our ability to read and understand literary works. (1977, reprinted 1998: 304) This is the case, since [t]he work has structure and meaning because it is read in a particular way, because these potential properties, latent in the object itself, are actualized by the theory of discourse applied in the act of reading. (1975: 114) The full meaning of a work can only be decoded by a recipient when its context is understood.
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