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Testing structural‐equivalence hypotheses in a network of geographical journals

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Most clustering representations of journal‐to‐journal networks are static and pay little attention to the intellectual state of a discipline(s). The status‐role hypothesis is no exception, notwithstanding its substantive grounding and confirmation for both psychological‐ and sociological‐journal networks at distinct time points. A critical test of this hypothesis is provided in a pair of geographical‐journal networks for 1970–1972 and for 1980–1982. The latter was generated after a period of great change and intellectual ferment. As expected, the status‐role hypothesis was confirmed for 1970–1972 but not for 1980–1982. This result indicates the need to consider wider disciplinary conditions when interpreting clustering representation of journal networks. It also implies a need to consider the time scale of the social processes of science. A related hypothesis of a center‐periphery structure for journal networks was confirmed for both periods. © 1988 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Patrick Doreian, 1988. "Testing structural‐equivalence hypotheses in a network of geographical journals," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 39(2), pages 79-85, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:39:y:1988:i:2:p:79-85
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198803)39:23.0.CO;2-C
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    1. Pieters, R. & Baumgartner, H. & Vermunt, J.K. & Bijmolt, T.H.A., 1998. "Importance, Cohesion and Structural Equivalence in the Evolving Citation Network of the International Journal of Research in Marketing," Other publications TiSEM 080e429b-d111-437e-9af3-5, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.

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