Clusters of Bibliographic References: A Brief Case Study

Abstract

Hans—Hermann Bock’s work includes many summaries and reviews of his own and others’ work in classification and clustering. These summaries are uniformly thorough, well-organized, and elegantly written. Many authors find the process of organizing such summaries and reviews frustrating and difficult. In this article we explore via a case study whether some sort of clustering process could help organize reviews and review sections of papers, perhaps to raise questions, suggest categories, or otherwise facilitate the development of papers. Professor Bock evidently has no need of such a tool, but the rest of us may find the possibility intriguing.