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Mapping Australian geophysics: A co-heading analysis

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Descriptive capacities of a new bibliometric method, namely co-heading analysis, are investigated. The method uses the appearance and co-appearance of classification subdivisions (headings) in the document records of 1988 INSPEC database to display correspondingly the main topics of Australian geophysics and their links. The findings, in the form of inclusion maps (resulting from multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis) provide new insights into geophysics national activity and into its structure.

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  1. Centre for Scientific Information, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 7 Noemvri St, BG-1040, Sofia, (Bulgaria)

    R. Todorov

  2. Science Studies Unit, University of Bielefeld, D-4800, Bielefeld 1, (FRG)

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Todorov, R., Winterhager, M. Mapping Australian geophysics: A co-heading analysis. Scientometrics 19, 35–56 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02130464

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