The cognitive structure of cocitation clusters associated with scientific specialties
<p>This study examines one empirical manifestation of social order of two elite scientific communities. This project examines the cognitive order or structure of the cocitation cluster of papers representative of each group.</p> <p>The method reported in this paper retrieves th...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45670 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11142012-040223/ |
| Summary: | <p>This study examines one empirical manifestation of social order of
two elite scientific communities. This project examines the cognitive
order or structure of the cocitation cluster of papers representative
of each group.</p>
<p>The method reported in this paper retrieves the cognitive
structures of cocitation clusters associated with scientific
specialties. This method uses socially reinforced regularities in
scientific writing styles, technical content and communicating
techniques displayed in published scientific papers. A cognitive
structure denotes a developmental outline of a scientific specialty's
central ideas. This structure comprises of a series of principal
statements and the linkages associating them. A principal statement is
a single sentence extracted from a paper which exemplifies the paper as
a whole. The linkages represent associations between sentences such as
refinement of previously stated ideas, confirmation of previous
findings, even contradiction of previous conclusions, and others. I apply this method to two independent clusters of papers each
representing a biology group: Australia Antigen and Lâ Dopa specialties,
respectively. The resultant cognitive structures are compare to
accounts of specialty cognitive development created by a previous study
of the same specialty groups performed by Mullins et al. (1977) and (1980).</p> === Master of Science |
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