Indicators of Structural Change in the Dynamics of Science: Entropy Statistics of the SCI Journal Citation Reports

Can change in citation patterns among journals be used as an indicator of structural change in the organization of the sciences? Aggregated journal-journal citations for 1999 are compared with similar data in the Journal Citation Reports 1998 of the Science Citation Index. In addition to indicating...

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Main Author: Leydesdorff, Loet
Language:en
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105612