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Deriving disciplinary structures: Some new methods, models, and an illustration with accounting

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This study demonstrates the use of two microcomputer based extensions of cocitation clustering, and content analysis to derive a disciplinary structure. The use of an independent data source and multiple discriminant analysis as a validation tool is also demonstrated. One extension of cocitation clustering is a form of non‐hierarchical single‐link clustering, and the second is sequential cocitation threshold stepping. These extensions can be used to cluster cocitations and syntactically represent cluster structure in the form of a dendogram. This structure can be given semantic content through the use of content analysis. The Research Markets Model of the behavior of research scholars provides a framework within which the heterogeneity and homogeneity apparent in the structure of scholarly disciplines is interpreted. © 1991 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Robert Bricker, 1991. "Deriving disciplinary structures: Some new methods, models, and an illustration with accounting," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 42(1), pages 27-35, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:42:y:1991:i:1:p:27-35
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199101)42:13.0.CO;2-B
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    1. Lowe, Alan & Locke, Joanne, 2006. "Constructing an ‘efficient frontier’ of accounting journal quality," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 38(3), pages 321-341.
    2. Özgür Özmen Uysal, 2010. "Business Ethics Research with an Accounting Focus: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1988 to 2007," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 93(1), pages 137-160, April.

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