Authors: Sandra Miguel Félix MoyaAnegón Víctor HerreroSolana
Publish Date: 2007/12/06
Volume: 74, Issue: 3, Pages: 331-344
Abstract
The intellectual structure and main research fronts of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of the National University of La Plata Argentina is studied based on the cocitation analysis of subject categories journals and authors of their scientific publications collected in the Science Citation Index CDROM version for the period 1991–2000 The objective of this study is to test the utility of those techniques to explore and to visualize the intellectual structure and research fronts of multidisciplinary institutional domains Special emphasis is laid on the identification of multilevel structures by means of arrangements of subject categories cocitation analysis and journal cocitation analysis
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