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Using Histcite Software To Identify Significant Articles In Subject Searches Of The Web Of Science, Enrique Wulff Jan 2007

Using Histcite Software To Identify Significant Articles In Subject Searches Of The Web Of Science, Enrique Wulff

Enrique Wulff

HistCiteTM is a large-scale computer tool for mapping science. Its power of visualization combines the production of historiographs on the basis of the analysis of co-citations of documents, with the use of bibliometrics specific indicators. The objective of this article is, to present the advantages of the new bibliometrics configuration of HistCiteTM (2004) when identifying articles. The analysis of the histograms that produces HistCiteTM in terms of cumulative advantage and aging of the citations. And the comparative study of the resulta of HistCiteTM, in its indicators of amplitude and recognition. Also is examined its treatment of the sampling problems, by …