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Dynamics and structure of systems science

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Systems science constitutes a specially difficult object of analysis as it is wide, interdisciplinary and shows ambiguity of notions and terms. These difficulties may be mastered, at least to some extent, with the aid of the analysis of the bibliographic citations system enabling a thorough study of the dynamics and structure of systems science. This paper presents the results of such analysis. Papers presented in Vienna at the Seventh European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (1984) formed the material, the analyses were made on.

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Lewicka-Strzalecka, A. Dynamics and structure of systems science. Scientometrics 12, 207–219 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016293

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Keywords

  • System Research
  • System Science
  • Citation System
  • Bibliographic Citation
  • Difficult Object