Co-word analysis

Co-word analysis is a bibliometric technique used to create atlas of science and related issues. In visualizing Library and Information Science (LIS), Åström (2002) found a good correspondence between maps based on author-co-citation analysis and on co-occurrence of descriptors. Perfetti (1998) is a critical paper about co-occurrences and related methods such as latent semantic analysis.

Literature:

Callon, M.; Courtial, J-P.; & Laville, F. (1991). Co-word analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemistry. Scientometrics, 22(1), 155-205.

Courtial, J-P., & Law, J. (1989). A co-word study of artificial intelligence. Social Studies of Science, 19, 301-311.

He, Q. (1999). Knowledge Discovery Through Co-Word Analysis. Library Trends, 48(1): 131-159.

Law, J.; Bauin, S.; Courtial, J-P.; & Whittaker, J. (1988). Policy and the mapping of scientific change: A co-word analysis of research into environmental acidification. Scientometrics, 14(3-4), 251-264.

Law, J., & Whittaker, J. (1992). Mapping acidification research: A test of the co-word method. Scientometrics, 23(3), 417-461.

Leydesdorff, L. (1997). Why words and co-words cannot map the development of the science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(5), 418-427.

Leydesdorff, L. (1998). Reply about using co-words. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(1), 98-99.

Perfetti, C. A. (1998). The limits of co-occurrence: Tools and theories in language research. Discourse Processes, 25, 363-377. http://www.pitt.edu/%7Eperfetti/PDF/Limits%20of%20co-occurrence.pdf

Turner, W. A.; Chartron, G.; Laville, E; & Michelet, B. (1988). Packaging information for peer review: New co-word analysis techniques. In A. F.J. Van Raan (Ed.), Handbook of quantitative studies of science and technology (pp. 291-323). Netherlands: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Turner, W. A., & Rojouan, F. (1991). Evaluating input/output relationships in a regional research network using co-word analysis. Scientometrics, 22(1), 139-154.

Whittaker, J. (1989). Creativity and conformity in science: Titles, keywords and co-word analysis. Social Studies of Science, 19, 473-496.

Åström, F (2002) Visualizing Library and Information Science concept spaces through keyword and citation based maps and clusters. In: Bruce, Fidel, Ingwersen & Vakkari (Eds). Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4), pp 185-197. Greenwood Village: Libraries unlimited. Two figures: Bibliometric_MAP_LIS.PDF; Bibliometric_LIS_2.PDF

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 27-02-2008

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