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Defining a core: Theoretical observations on the Egghe-Rousseau proposal

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  • Quentin L. Burrell

    (Isle of Man International Business School)

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In a recent paper Egghe & Rousseau (2002) have readdressed the problem of defining the “core” of a subject's literature by focussing on the productivity of the contributing sources as measured by their influence on an overall concentration value. Here we generalise Egghe & Rousseau's empirical approach, based upon the Gini index, to a more theoretical setting. This allows a simple visualisation of the geometry of the procedure and a complete analysis in certain classic cases. We conclude that, without additional empirical support, the approach does not appear to offer real improvement on more established and intuitively appealing schemes.

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  • Quentin L. Burrell, 2003. "Defining a core: Theoretical observations on the Egghe-Rousseau proposal," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 57(1), pages 75-92, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:57:y:2003:i:1:d:10.1023_a:1023623603913
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1023623603913
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    1. Leo Egghe & Ronald Rousseau, 2002. "A proposal to define a core of a scientific subject: A definition using concentration and fuzzy sets," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 54(1), pages 51-62, April.
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