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co-citation analysis: a standalone construct

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Information science

measuring how related two documents are by how often later works cite them together.

In information science, co-citation analysis refers to measuring how related two documents are by how often later works cite them together. This meaning comes from Small (1973) in Journal of the American Society for Information Science.[1]

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References

  1. Small, H. (1973). Co‐citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24(4), 265-269. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630240406

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