Scholarly communication and bibliometrics / edited by Christine L. Borgman ; editorial board, Belver C. Griffith ... [et al.]. - Newbury Park : Sage Publications, c1990. - 363 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"A revision and extension of the special issue of Communication research (volume 16, number 5, October 1989)"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-331) and indexes.

Understanding science: studies of communication and information / Belver C. Griffith -- Disciplinary work and interdisciplinary areas: sociology and bibliometrics / Sydney J. Pierce -- Reconciling structure and process in the study of scholary communication / Leah A. Lievrouw -- A view of studies on bibliometrics and related subjects in Japan / Sadaaki Miyamoto, Nobuyuki Midorikawa, and Kazuhiko Nakayama -- Author co-citation analysis: overview and defense / Howard D. White. Who carries the field? communication between literary scholars and critics / Karl Erik Rosengren -- The Absence of co-citation as a clue to undiscovered causal connections / Don R. Swanson -- Hierarchies and clusters among communication and library and information science journals, 1977-1987 / Ronald E. Rice -- An author co-citation analysis of two research traditions: technology transfer and the diffusion of innovations / Everett M. Rogers and Charlotte A. Cottrill. A co-citation study of AIDS research / Henry Small and Edwin Greenlee -- Mapping authors in intellectual space: population genetics in the 1980s / Katherine W. McCain -- International scientific cooperation and awareness: a bibliometric case study of agricultural research within the european community / Henk F. Moed and Renger E. de Bruin -- Core journals of the rapidly changing research front of "superconductivity" / Terrence A. Brooks. Editors-in-chief of medical journals: are they experts, authorities, both, or neither? / Sandor Zsindely and Andras Schubert -- Identifying the important theorists of communication: use of latent measures to test manifest assumptions in scholarly communication / James R. Beniger -- The future of bibliometrics / William Paisley.

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Communication--Research--Methodology.
Bibliometrics.
Communication in learning and scholarship.