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crl-15090	Alger, Jeff	Can RANK be Used to Generate a Reliable Author List for Cocitation Studies?	1996	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4186	198	55	The fundamental steps in cocitation are the selection of documents or authors for analysis; retrieval of cocitation frequencies, usually by searching the Science Citation Index (SCI) or the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); compilation of a raw cocitation matrix; conversion of the raw data matrix to a correlation matrix; analysis of the correla- tion matrix through nonrnetric multidimen- sional scaling (MDS); and finally, interpre- tation and validation of the results.4 Some of the problems inherent in coci- tation studies are similar to those in other ci- tation methodologies, such as a lack of con- sistency in name authority of cited authors and selection of prominent documents or authors within a given field. Figure 1 presents a two-dimensional map of cocited author positions in rela- tion to other authors in the study.	cache/crl-15090.pdf	txt/crl-15090.txt