Information Literacy in VosViewer

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For this exercise I chose the topic “information literacy” which had over 3,000 hits in Web of Science. I was expecting there to be quite a few hits for this, so was pleased by the number. Looking through the list, the results were varied in terms of related topics and disciplines. Importing things into VosViewer […]

Citations and Its Limitations

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Reflection of Citation Exercise. I did the citation exercise for two authors, Kenneth Frampton and Keith Eggener. While the former is a well-known name in the academic conversation of modern architectural history, the latter is equally renowned yet many of his work are published only in architectural magazines. Following are my reports on both authors: […]

Quantifying Worth

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Wood, J. W., Milner, G. R., Harpending, H. C., Weiss, K. M., Cohen, M. N., Eisenberg, L. E., … & Katzenberg, M. A. (1992). The osteological paradox: problems of inferring prehistoric health from skeletal samples [and comments and reply]. Current anthropology, 33(4), 343-370. 1a. Total number of citations? 8,226 (Excluding self-citations) 1b. What can you learn about […]

Useful? Not really

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Rice, Louise. “Urban VIII, the Archangel Michael, and a Forgotten Project for the Apse Altar of St Peter’s.” The Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1072 (1992): 428-34. Accessed February 10, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/885200 Step 1) What is the total number of citations? 6 What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since […]

Metrics and Citations

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Epstein, Richard A. “Caste and the Civil Rights Laws: From Jim Crow to Same-Sex Marriages.” Michigan Law Review 92, no. 8 (1994): 2456-478.   http://apps.webofknowledge.com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/CitationReport.do?product=UA&search_mode=CitationReport&SID=7EEgg7EEbMxjPWfsX3T&page=1&cr_pqid=39&viewType=summary   Total number of citations: 191 What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since it was published? Published in 1995, the highest number of citations […]