Document (#19036)

Author

Wilson, C.S.

Title

Defining subject collections for informetric analyses : the effect of varying the subject aboutness level

Source

Scientometrics. 41(1998) nos.1/2, S.209-223

Year

1998

Abstract

Examines how several commonly measured properties of subject literatures vary as an important factor in the compilation of subject collections (the amount which a document 'says' about a subject) is varied. This document property has been expressed in formal terms and given a simple measure for the one subject examined, the research topic of Bradford's law of scattering. It is found that lowering the level of subject aboutness required for admission to a collection produces a large increase in the size of the collection obtained, and an appreciable change in some size related properties

Footnote

Paper presented at the 6th conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Jerusalem, 16-19 June 1997

Theme

Informetrie

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